Student Day of Poetry: Lowell

In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books, Mowgli is accepted into a wolf pack as a child. When he grows into a teenager, he is rejected by the wolves and returns to the village. He is of the jungle, but he is not of the jungle. He is from the village, but he is not from the village. “These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring.” Many tales in poetry and literature speak of this struggle of boundaries, when our identities do not fit into one category. Through Kipling’s poetry and our own written expression, we will speak of our own identities as they defy the borders that cannot contain us.