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