Thursday, 19 May 2011

IF Rudyard Kipling J.S.

In the poem IF, I think Rudyard Kipling is trying to
express to the reader that you can do anything
and if everyone believed that think of all the amazing things you can do!
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

It is basically saying if you could do what everyone
else is  not doing than you could be amazing and supereor,
 in mind and body.
The poem means if you could do all these amazing things,
 like always be proud of you and your friends,
 stand up tall and think with love happiness,
you will be perfect, and you will go to heaven.
You'll be a proud Candan and a true man/ women.
 I think this song really reflects passion and
I think that is expressed srtongly in the 3rd stansa;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

This means that if you can force your'e heart to love,
and to give passion it will come naturally to you.
I really thought this poem gave so much opinion and expressed all the things people do to love.
The third line really speaks to me because it says If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
To me that means: if you can stand when people push you down, and you can stand up, you are amazing.
I think that it also means that you believe in yourself when your life seems empty.
But overall to me this poem is special and I think it is beautiful in so many ways.

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