Реферат: An Explication Of The Poem
line one, “If you can keep your head when all about you”, line sixteen, “And stoop and
build ?em up with worn-out tools”, and line eighteen, “And risk it on one turn of pitch-
and-toss”. Other signs of assonance is seen in lines twelve, thirteen, sixteen, twenty,
twenty-seven, and twenty-three. There is no onomatopoeia in the poem “If”.
There is few signs of literal language. In line nine it says, “If you can
dream?and not make dreams your master,” there is a sense of being in a dream world.
In line thirteeen, “Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build
?em up with worn-out tools,” a picture of someone working with old tools runs through
the mind. In line twenty-five, “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,” this
line lets the reader imagine talking to a group of people. In line thirty, “With sixty
seconds? worth of distance run,” the reader imagines running down a track.
In the poem “If” figurative language is shown rarely. In line eleven, “If you can
meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same,” there is
personification. In line twenty-four, “Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
In his poem, Rudyard Kipling tries to set forth his ideas of what a real man should
be like. He states many morals and advice that people can use in there everyday life. He
tells the reader how not to let the reader let the real world bring you down, and not to be
self-conceited with yourself our thoughts. The poem can apply not only to men but also
to women and the entire world. His thoughts and morals can always be found in any of
the poems he writes.