后人对于吉卜林文学创作的认识存在着较大的争议,甚至跨越了20世纪的百年岁月。作为一名出身于印度并长期在印度生活、工作的英国人,吉卜林的人生轨迹不可避免地沾染了殖民主义色彩,很多人也正是从殖民主义思想的角度审视吉卜林的创作。一方面,获得诺贝尔文学奖的殊荣使得吉卜林无法被英国文学史彻底遗忘,在各种类型的英国文学史中会不可避免 The descendants’ conception of Kipling’s literary creation is quite controversial, even spanning one hundred years of the 20th century. As a native of India who lived and worked in India for a long time, Kipling’s life trajectory inevitably has been contaminated by colonialism. Many people are contemplating Kipling’s creation from the perspective of colonialism. On the one hand, winning the Nobel Prize for literature makes Kipling unable to be completely forgotten by British literary history and inevitable in all types of British literary history