Poetry Friday: Remembrance Day edition
I was going through One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children the other week, and in the section on "War", I came across the old Rudyard Kipling poem "My Boy Jack", which I thought I would use this week, about his heartbreaking search for his only son who was lost in action at the age of 18, after only two days at the front, at the Battle of Loos on September 27, 1915.
And then in checking to see if the poem was somewhere online so I could just cut-and-paste instead of type it all out, I discovered that my selection is timely:
And then in checking to see if the poem was somewhere online so I could just cut-and-paste instead of type it all out, I discovered that my selection is timely:
[Television channel] ITV is prepared for complaints over My Boy Jack, the story of the author