[stylist] Your Take

[Donna Hill]

Joe,
You say it very succinctly. That's how it struck me too. I do wonder, 
however, what Kipling's critics and biographers say about it.
Donna

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On 1/20/2011 5:22 PM, Joe Orozco wrote:
> Wow, I'm intrigued with everyone's interpretations.  They're far more
> sophisticated than my own.  For whatever it's worth, my view was that the
> poem reminds us that history, despite all its atrocities, is doomed to
> repeat itself over and over, but that there are always silver-tongued
> bystanders who are all too willing to sell us the promise that this time
> things really will be different.  See?  Unsophisticated and completely
> wrong, but maybe I'm trying too hard to fit it into a public relations lens.
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
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