{"id":1702,"date":"2025-12-06T02:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:59:51","slug":"enya-cea-lavins-reading-of-kiplings-my-boy-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Enya Cea-Lavin’s reading of Kipling’s My Boy Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My Boy Jack by Kipling, read by Enya Cea-Lavin<\/a> (Link to my reading)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting off with a lack of knowledge on The Great War to what I’ve gained now, Kipling’s poem “My Boy Jack,” is the poem that has spoken to me the most this semester. It properly executes the feeling and emotion behind the families affected from the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After diving deeper with this poem in class, I got the understanding that this was a father battling with his internal self about his son’s death, and not a father speaking with someone else. Meaning that he is the only speaker in the poem. This was a very interesting way to read the poem, as well as an interesting way to reflect the emotion and disheartening feeling behind losing someone to the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Although we get dialogue and personal thoughts\/perspectives in a lot of our readings, I saw more of a connection to this simply because it was a family member coming to a realization of the truth of his son’s whereabouts. The few lines that stuck out the most to me were, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None this tide,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor any tide,”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realizing that the father may not be able to find comfort in his son’s death brings an extra level of sadness to the war for me. As well, this brings an extra level of humanity to the soldiers as it allows you to recognize that they are people with families that may not see their return. When reading this, I got a sense of understanding that the father is realizing he is going to miss out on all these milestones with his son that he could have had post war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall this poem spoke to me because it connects a lot of the emotions and themes we focused on in class. I came from a limited perspective but sitting in on this class, and more specifically diving into a poem like \u201cMy Boy Jack,\u201d has given me such a better understanding by allowing me to acknowledge the emotional and metaphorical meaning behind The Great War and the families involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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