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Sorrow and the redemptive role of fate: Kipling's "On Greenhow Hill".(Critical Essay)
From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:Dillingham, William B.
In the complicated mosaic of Rudyard Kipling's belief system, sorrow and fate are prominent motifs. At times he appeared to be almost obsessed with the subject of grief, which he considered to be one of the exquisite torments that make human existence a living hell. (1) From early in his life to late, belief in fate was for him something of a substitute for belief in God. On one occasion, in 1908, he called himself "a Godfearing Christian atheist," a peculiar confession of faith if there ever was one (Kipling, letter to Lady Edward Cecil). I think what he meant was that he ...
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