Short Stories
ENGLISH LITERATURE
ASSIGNMENT 1
POEM ANALYSIS
REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS POEM
I choose this poem ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling because when I read this poem it reminds me of when I was a little girl how it was difficult to grow up. This poem brings back memories. Back in that time, my family wasn’t a well-to-do family. It makes me remember how hard it is to do things on my own and it took me a very long time to be independent and start to mature. It also make me think how much farther I have to develop in order to completely grow up and reminds me when I was young in life and everything was still new to me. It also reminds me of learning and experiencing new things for the first time yet makes me wonder what the future holds. Some of the situation in this poem somehow related to me. When I read this poem I feel motivated to do things better. There are so many lessons to be learned from this poem.
‘if’
By: Rudyard Kipling
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
If you can dream and not make dreams your master If you can think and not make thought your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap of fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss
And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone
ASSIGNMENT 1
POEM ANALYSIS
REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS POEM
I choose this poem ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling because when I read this poem it reminds me of when I was a little girl how it was difficult to grow up. This poem brings back memories. Back in that time, my family wasn’t a well-to-do family. It makes me remember how hard it is to do things on my own and it took me a very long time to be independent and start to mature. It also make me think how much farther I have to develop in order to completely grow up and reminds me when I was young in life and everything was still new to me. It also reminds me of learning and experiencing new things for the first time yet makes me wonder what the future holds. Some of the situation in this poem somehow related to me. When I read this poem I feel motivated to do things better. There are so many lessons to be learned from this poem.
‘if’
By: Rudyard Kipling
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
If you can dream and not make dreams your master If you can think and not make thought your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap of fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss
And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone