"Fuzzy Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling read by Farnham Town Crier
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was the term used by British colonial soldiers for the 19th-century Beja warriors supporting the Sudanese Mahdi in the Mahdist War. The term Fuzzy Wuzzy is purely of English origin and is not connected with Arabic.
Kipling's poem praises the Hadendoa for their martial prowess, because "for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square". This could refer to either or both historical battles between the British and Mahdist forces where British infantry squares were broken. The first was at the Battle of Tamai, on 13 March 1884, and the second was on 17 January 1885 during the Battle of Abu Klea. Kipling's narrator, an infantry soldier, speaks in admiring terms of the "Fuzzy-Wuzzies", praising their bravery which, although insufficient to defeat the British, did at least enable them to boast of having "broken the square"-an achievement which few other British foes could claim.
This orator is top notch.
Kipling was one of the best English poets. He's not well regarded due to the colonial past. He only had the best intentions for India and it's people.
Nonsense. He was a tool of British imperialism, which destroyed India and impoverished it for centuries.
"The Road to Mandalay" is a nostalgic poem about his time in the Far East, written when he was returning from 7 years in India via Burma. Kipling claimed that when in Moulmein, he had paid no attention to the Great Pagoda his poem later made famous, because he was so struck by a Burmese beauty on the steps. He wrote at the time "I love the Burman with the blind favouritism born of first impression. When I die I will be a Burman … and I will always walk about with a pretty almond-coloured girl who shall laugh and jest too, as a young maiden ought." Very broad-minded for 1890.
@@robinclarke9978 “…there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!”
Those are not the words of a racist or bigot.
Kipling has never been more relevant from his time till today
That 'Colonial Past' civilized much of the world through both war and peace
fuzzy wuzzy ...the legends Sudanese Warriors from beja tribe
I thought he was talking about Ale. The Man Who Would Be King, If...
Evidently they don't like it up em.
Top notch . I agree ..pity it is not full version ..I maybe wrong . suffice to say loved it.
broud to be a fuzzy wuzzy girl
white people are fucked up...
Jealousy
Why do you say that?
All PEOPLE are Fucked Up!
Yeah why would you say that? Aside from being a generalizing racist bigot. Of course that’s just my guess.
Not this "white man". I'm quite sane and nice...You've been slumming, my dear. Get out of the gutter.
Gordon at Khartoum. He learned, too late...
My house is named wuzzy