Kipling's poetry draws heavily on three stylistic sources: popular ballads, music-hall songs, and hymns. What is the effect of these styles on our understanding of his poetry?
Though Kipling himself was well-educated, his speakers are often working-class men, privates in the English army. What is the effect of dialect on your understanding of poems like "Danny Deever" and "The Widow at Windsor"?
Race, class, and gender intersect in "The Widow at Windsor," in which Kipling's speaker "celebrates" his queen. You might compare the gender attitudes embodied in this poem with those implicit in Ruskin's essay on Imperialism (from Norton Topics Online).
"Recessional" was written for the Queen's Jubilee, the celebration of the 60th anniversary of her reign. What does the poem celebrate, if anything?