Реферат: An Explication Of The Poem
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on !”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!
Rudyard Kipling?s life, style, and writing are very interesting and it?ll be
remembered for a long period of time, much longer into the 20th century. On December
30, 1865, Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay, India. Kipling wrote 19th
century in his short stories, novels, and poems. He used little symbolism in his work.
Kipling wrote adventure and with a didactic mind, which showed in his works.
“The survival of the fittest” was in Kipling?s vision of impearilism and British Life, and
in his eyes, the love of animals was the law of the jungle. He mostly wrote on a defensive
side. In 1936, Kipling?s poor health was reported throughout the whole world
foreshadowing his death. Kipling died from a fatal hemmorrhage two days after King
George. His ashes were buried in poets? Corner in West Minister Abbey. Rudyard
Kipling was overall an outstanding figure in the 19th centrury. Even though his style has
“dropped out of modern literature” his stories and novels are still heard today.
In the poem “If” there are thirty-two lines or verses, and four stanzas. The
metrical pattern alternates from trochaic pentameter to iambic pentameter from one line
to the other. The rhyme sceme is ABAB except for the first four lines which all rhyme.
Examples of sound devices include aliteration. There is aliteration in line six, “Or being
lied about, don?t deal in lies”, line eight, “And yet don?t look too good, nor talk too
wise”, and line twelve “And treat those two imposters just the same.” Other signs of
aliteraion are found in lines fourteen, eighteen, twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty, and in line