Search e-Library




Filtered by: Show All

Tommy Atkins : name used in the specimen form given in British Army regulations from 1815, to be filled up by the prospective recruit.

2 result/s found for Tommy Atkins

... 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 ...

[exact]

... 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 ...