The Widow at Windsor

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"The Widow at Windsor" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling from his Barrack-Room Ballads collection, voiced by British soldiers reflecting on their service to Queen Victoria and the British Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
poem
addresses cost of empire to common soldiers
power of the Crown
author Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
collection Barrack-Room Ballads NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts British Army NERFINISHED
colonial warfare
firstPublicationCollection Barrack-Room Ballads NERFINISHED
genre ballad
soldier’s song
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature
meter ballad form
narrativePerspective first-person plural
narrativeVoice British soldiers
partOf Barrack-Room Ballads NERFINISHED
portrays relationship between soldiers and monarch
setDuring reign of Queen Victoria
style dialect verse
subject British Empire NERFINISHED
Queen Victoria NERFINISHED
theme class and power
imperialism
loyalty to the monarch
military service
sacrifice of soldiers
tone colloquial
ironic

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Barrack-Room Ballads notablePoem The Widow at Windsor