"Have you news of my boy Jack?" Not this tide. "When d'you think that he'll come back?" Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. Kipling never wrote directly about the loss of his son but 'My Boy Jack' is clearly a thinly disguised poem about mourning and regret and also the importance of. "My Boy Jack" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16 year old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross who stayed by his post on board ship during the battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was. Still, Rudyard urges Jack to keep trying, ultimately creating tension between him and his wife, Carrie. Both Carrie and Rudyard’s daughter, Elsie, resent him for pressuring Jack, objecting to Rudyard’s obsession with bravery, which they believe puts Jack in harm’s way. When Jack is killed in action (after Rudyard pulled strings to get him into the army), Rudyard tries to find comfort in the idea that his son . · This poem was written by writer Rudyard Kipling after his son was killed in in the First World War. Kipling is played by David Haig, his son Jack by Dan. Kipling never wrote directly about the loss of his son but ‘My Boy Jack’ is clearly a thinly disguised poem about mourning and regret and also the importance of sacrifice. The father of a sailor asks for news of his son who has seemingly been lost at sea. The answers he receives suggest that there is no hope his son will ever return.
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