This Poem I Found when reading the Jungle book.I liked it so because of its unique rhythm,you can almost hear the drumbeat! It has a unique style that sends you into the thick jungles of eastern India.
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
by Ruyard Kipling
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice and again!
And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up
From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup.
This I, scouting alone, beheld,
Once, twice and again!
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice and again!
And a wolf stole back, and a wolf stole back
To carry the word to the waiting pack,
And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track
Once, twice and again!
As the dawn was breaking the Wolf Pack yelled
Once, twice and again!
Feet in the jungle that leave no mark!
Eyes that can see in the dark--the dark!
Tongue--give tongue to it! Hark! O hark!
Once, twice and again!
photos from:http://humanities.blogs.ie.edu/files/2013/02/rudyard-kipling.jpg
poem from: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/jngl-Pack.html
by Ruyard Kipling
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice and again!
And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up
From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup.
This I, scouting alone, beheld,
Once, twice and again!
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled
Once, twice and again!
And a wolf stole back, and a wolf stole back
To carry the word to the waiting pack,
And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track
Once, twice and again!
As the dawn was breaking the Wolf Pack yelled
Once, twice and again!
Feet in the jungle that leave no mark!
Eyes that can see in the dark--the dark!
Tongue--give tongue to it! Hark! O hark!
Once, twice and again!
photos from:http://humanities.blogs.ie.edu/files/2013/02/rudyard-kipling.jpg
poem from: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/jngl-Pack.html
Response
The Reason I have such empathy for this poem is because I enjoy the outdoors and like how it embodies every aspect of the forest. The way it can be related to and at the same time it is mysterious. It has a certain majesty to it that makes it great at being savagely beautiful by explaining the scene from a wolves perspective. How it captures the misunderstood respect wolves have for authority among the pack as to what their job is.
The Reason I have such empathy for this poem is because I enjoy the outdoors and like how it embodies every aspect of the forest. The way it can be related to and at the same time it is mysterious. It has a certain majesty to it that makes it great at being savagely beautiful by explaining the scene from a wolves perspective. How it captures the misunderstood respect wolves have for authority among the pack as to what their job is.