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‘The Camel’s Hump’ is a poem that appears in Rudyard Kipling’s fable How the Camel Got His Hump. The story is about a lazy camel who avoids working and just sits idle in one place. As a consequence, the natural forces (a Djinn in this case) punish the camel with a hump on its back. Kipling is an Indian-born British poet.
'Does he say anything else?' 'Only "Humph!"; and he won't plough,' said the Ox. 'Very good,' said the Djinn. 'I'll humph him if you will kindly wait a minute.' The Djinn rolled himself up in his dust-cloak, and took a bearing across the desert, and found the Camel most 'scruciatingly idle, looking at his own reflection in a pool of water.
PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous camel poems. These examples illustrate what a famous camel poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate). See also:
Camels is an exercise for the B2 First Use of English Part 2 set at an Upper Intermediate Level of English that explains the features that you will find on camels. This exercise consists of a text about camels in which there are 8 gaps. Each gap represents a missing word or phrase.
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The poem. This poem, like the story, is a cautionary tale about what happens if “we haven’t enough to do”. Notes on the Text [Verse 2] cameelious Kipling’s made-up word, clearly meaning “like a camel” [Verse 3] describes the symptoms of getting the hump. frouzly A made-up word, combining “frowzy” and “frizzly. [‘DH.]
10 gru 2010 · A poem in which a camel compares his life with that of other animals of the world.
