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The Road to Mandalay

Rudyard Kipling is an interesting poet to study these days. His notions of the White Man's Burden seem so outdated, yet his experiences in Colonial India have echoes in the actions of the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I had some music snippets and thought it would be a good exercise to fill them out using an existing poem as the basis for rhythm and structure.

I chose Kipling's "Mandalay" because it had a structure that would work with what I already had melodically, and the verses are very visual.

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