Question: How old was Kipling when he wrote The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"

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The Ballad of the &quot;Clampherdown&quot;: "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"" is a satirical poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1892.

A Death-Bed: "A Death-Bed" is a poem by English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).  It was first published in April 1919, in the collection "The Years Between".  Later publications identified the year of writing as 1918.  Kipling's only son, John, had been reported missing in action in 1915, during the Battle of Loos.  Kipling was grief-stricken.  "A Death-Bed" has been described as "the most savage poem Kipling ever wrote", and as "overtly distasteful".

My Boy Jack (poem): "My Boy Jack" is a 1915 poem by Rudyard Kipling.  Although Kipling wrote it after his son John (called Jack), an 18-year-old Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, when Irish Guards disappeared in September 1915 during the Battle of Loos in World War I, it was published as a prelude to a story in his book "Sea Warfare" written about the Battle of Jutland in 1916.  The imagery and theme is maritime in nature and as such it is about a generic nautical Jack (or Jack Tar), though emotionally affected by the death of Kipling's son.

Black Tyrone: The "Black Tyrones" are a fictional Irish regiment mentioned in the works of Rudyard Kipling.  The poem "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone" mentions their service in Burma (modern Myanmar) in pursuit of a prince-turned-robber named Da Thone and the vain efforts of Captain "Crook" O'Neil and his Black Tyrones to catch him.  The regiment is also mentioned in Kipling's short stories "Black Jack", "The Courting of Dinah Shadd", "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney", "Love-O'-Women", "The Man Who Was", and "With the Main Guard".

Rudyard Kipling: Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House): Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro.  The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896.  It is in this house that Kipling wrote "Captains Courageous", "The Jungle Book", "The Day's Work", and "The Seven Seas", and did work on "Kim" and "The Just So Stories".  Kipling named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated inside Lahore Fort in Pakistan.  The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available for rent.

The Last of the Light Brigade: "The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade".  Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava.  It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers.  Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in "The Absent Minded Beggar".

The Ballad of East and West: "The Ballad of East and West" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling.  It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since.  Its first line is often quoted, sometimes to ascribe racism to Kipling, particularly in regard to the British Empire.  Those who quote it thus often completely miss the third and fourth lines.  The full refrain, with which the poem opens and closes, includes a contradiction of the opening line:

Snarleyow: Snarleyow is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in late 1890.  The title character was a horse that was part of a team pulling a gun.  The poem is one of many Kipling wrote depicting the life of soldiers in the British army.  It appears that this one is based on an incident in the life of Staff Sergeant Nathaniel W. Bancroft, of the old Bengal Horse Artillery and later the Royal Horse Artillery.  The poem was one of the many Kipling poems set to song by G. F. Cobb.

Danny Deever: "Danny Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads.  It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse.  The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder.  His execution is viewed by his regiment, paraded to watch it, and the poem is composed of the comments they exchange as they see him hanged.

Supporting paragraphs: The Ballad of the &quot;Clampherdown&quot; Rudyard Kipling
Answer: December 1865