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Summary Analysis on 'IF' - Rudyard Kipling [ IGCSE English Literature ]
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This word document gives a full on description based on: 1. Language techniques 2. Structure 3. Full on analysis on the Poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling

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  • October 30, 2022
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  • 2021/2022
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  • english
  • literature
  • igcse
  • anthology
  • poetry
  • paper 1
  • rudyard kipling
  • if

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If
Kipling Rudyard
 Introductory points
 Addressed to the writer’s son but it is more widely directed to a young boy growing into
adulthood
 A poem bases on a father giving fatherly advice to his son
 It can be taken as a universal advice

 STRUCTURE/FORM
 4 Stanzas – each containing 8 lines [ focused on related virtues]
 Iambic pentameter
 Rhyme scheme ABABCDCD
 The poem is a single long sentence in conditional tense
 The poem is second person
 A dramatic monologue

POEM

Stanza 1

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; PATIENCE
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:

NOTES

 IF conjunction
 [ to include a long list of conditional clauses]
 Used to show that he persons success depends on the conditions that kipling mentions
 by mentioning the things the boy should do in order to become a ‘‘man’’
 emphasizing how he should behave and some uncertainty within it

 “If you can” Repetition [ Anaphora ]

 you / yourself second person = specific/general address
 portrays the father talking tohis child
 gives an idea of a person talking toa reader too

 TONE: Didactic/ command/ instruction/ request/ advisory

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