If Rudyard Kipling If Poem Analysis

Name: Fatma Magdy Abd El Sattar.
School: Manara IGCSE.
Title: Father Hood.
Poems:
1. If –By Rudyard Kipling
2. Once upon a time –By Gabriel Okara
3. Poem at thirty-nine– By Alice Walker
4. Family circle –By Melissa G. Nicks
5. Memories Of My Dad –By Rebecca D. Cook
6. Special Hero –By Christina M. Kerschen

IF—By Rudyard Kipling

Paraphrase
The idea of this poem is that success comes from self control. A man must not lose heart because of doubts or dissent, but he must do all of his best to see both. he must use each of triumph and disaster wisely and push on in all things he must hold to the golden mean if he does he'll own the world, for his personal reward he'll achieve the full figure of manhood. "If" is a whole series of metaphors Rhyme is one of a poet’s most powerful tools. When used well, it creates a rhythmic, songlike quality. every line of the stanza begins with ''IF" to make us aware that without conforming to certain conditions one cannot be classified as a real

once upon a time all peoples used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes but now people laugh only with their teeth and people's eyes are as cold as ice. This means that there is no warmth or real feeling in the words that they say, or how they behave…people at the past used to shake hands with their hearts buts that’s all gone they shake hands while searching the empty pockets... they say ''feel at home'' ''come again'' and once he come again, twice there will be no third time then he find doors shuts on him...so he have learned many things in this strange life he had learned to wear many faces like dresses 'home face , street face , office face , host face cocktail face 'where there is many conforming smiles.. that’s like a fixed portrait smile. And he had learned too to laugh with only his teeth and shake hands without his heart... he had learned to say ''goodbye'' when he