Reread “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Why might Kipling have decided to write the poem using second-person point of view? How does the language that Kipling uses in the poem affect readers? Your answer should be at least two complete paragraphs and should cite specific examples from the text to support your response.
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 thoughts 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 for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out 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,
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!
This is the last question to my last assigment and i honestly am i having the worst time!
Update:
You don’t need to actually write the two paragraphs but as much info you can give me would be awesome!
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Any other point of view may have made it seem awkward or to direct to one thing, when it’s really just a general poem.
Kipling’s word choice is simple yet deep. It gives readers of all ages to really be able to connect with the work.
Source(s): this is one of my favorite poems