Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) "Tiger! Tiger!" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to "Mowgli's Brothers", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in "The Jungle Book" (1894), following "Kaa's Hunting". The title is derived from William Blake's poem "The Tyger". After driving out the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli leaves the wolf pack that has raised him and makes his way to a human village to be with his own (biological) kind. There he is adopted by a bereaved couple, Messua and her husband, due to his resemblance to their
Tommy (Kipling poem) T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection "A Choice of Kipling's Verse". Tommy (Kipling poem) "Tommy" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war. The Tommy of the poem is Tommy Atkins, a generic slang name for a common British soldier. A term of uncertain origin, the name "Thomas Atkins" was