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Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din".
Din! Din! ‘’Ere’s a beggar with a bullet through ’is spleen; ‘’E's chawin’ up the ground, ‘An’ ’e’s kickin’ all around: ‘For Gawd’s sake git the water, Gunga Din!’. ’E carried me away. To where a dooli lay, An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean.
The Gunga Din Highway è il titolo di una novella di Frank Chin, uno scrittore polemista cino-americano autore di lavori per il teatro e di fiction televisive. In Hellboy, il partner di Hellboy, Roger, sceglie la via del sacrificio pronunciando la storica frase: You're a better man than I, Gunga Din.
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‘Gunga Din’ by Rudyard Kipling describes the life and death of an Indian water carrier named Gunga Din. In the first lines of this poem the speaker addresses the nature of serving in India. This includes the heat, the atmosphere , war, and those he spent time with.
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Gunga Din. You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
The poem. This short story in rhyme is one of the best-known and most parodied of Kipling’s poems. It concerns a regimental water-carrier (bhisti) in India, who is commonly shouted at and cuffed by sweating soldiers on the troop trains, since there is never enough water to be had.
Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! This poem is in the public domain. Joseph Rudyard Kipling is best known for his novels The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book , and Kim , and his most famous poem, " If — ".
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