Russian Linguistic Bulletin (May 2023)
THE TOPIC OF BRITISH NATIONAL HISTORY IN J.R.KIPLING’S POETRY AND PECULIARITIES OF ITS LEXICAL EMBODIMENT
Abstract
The article describes and discusses the revealing of British national history topic in the poetic texts by one of the most prominent English-speaking authors at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – Joseph Rudyard Kipling. Kipling’s subjective position, expressed in the desire to strengthen the national-patriotic sentiments of compatriots, especially children, is emphasized and described in the article. Lexical peculiarities of the poems (abundance of archaic and historical words) are highlighted and analyzed as well. Based on the materials of Kipling's works, the author describes a change in the interpretation of national history topic in English literature at the turn of XIX and XX centuries, a deeper and more meaningful attitude towards it. The materials and results of the study can be applied in the course of teaching the History of Foreign Literature, special courses in British poetry of XIX – XX centuries at the university.
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