The Appeal
The Appeal - meaning Summary
Comfort in Posthumous Legacy
Kipling asks readers to accept the poet’s work as his lasting presence and to let him rest in peace. He asks that any pleasure derived from his poems be enough, and that mourners refrain from probing beyond what he left in print. The poem frames death as a brief remembrance and privileges the written legacy over speculation about the dead’s inner life.
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