Tommy Atkins : name used in the specimen form given in British Army regulations from 1815, to be filled up by the prospective recruit.
... style and technique of these two quotations. The first is an instance of Gerard Manley Hopkins' polyphony "at its most magnificent and intricate": The next quotation illustrates Kipling's Tommy-Atkins-music at its most vivid and onomatopoeic—lines considered by Lascelles Abercrombie to be a masterly fusion of all the elements necessary in poetic technique: 'Less you want your toes trod ...
... AK: I should like to have a few words from you on the Page 187 poetic style and technique of these two quotations. The first is... The next quotation illustrates Kipling's Tommy-Atkins-music at its most vivid and onomatopoeic — lines considered by Lascelles Abercrombie to be a masterly fusion of all the elements necessary in poetic technique: Lest you want your toes trod ...
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