Which city, also the title of a Kipling poem, is the second largest in Myanmar (Burma)?
Mandalay (poem) of the City of Mahagonny". Mandalay (poem) "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in "Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses" in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled
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