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Kipling's Famous Poem

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is the sentiment, says Arlo Bates in The Atlantic, and not the object, which arouses sympathy and kindies the irnagination. No mistake could be more complete than to snppose that in this poem is to be found any argument in favor of the use of rnachinery as material for poetry. In "McAndrew's Hymn" it is the character of the stanch old engineer and bis feelings by which the reader is moved. The wonders of the great engine are a hindrance, and not a help, if they are looked at in any way other than through the eyes of McAndrew. The piece succeeds or fails to the degree in which it makes his emotion real and contagions to the reader, and that, too, as emotion pnre and simple, quite without regard to what has excited it. In so far as the attention is caught by tailrod, crank throws, feeding pump and "purrin dynamos" - finely suggestive as is the epithet in this last - the emotional effect is weakened at the expense of the intellectual.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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