Why does Rudyard Kipling call “disaster” and “triumph” impostors in his poem “If”?
jamie-wheeler Teacher College – Sophomore My thinking is that the speaker wants us to view life as a continuum, marked by peaks and valleys that may or may not be seminal events in our lives. If we can resist becoming too self-assured by our successess nor too defeated by disasters, we can live more contentedly. I am reminded by of the quote by Golda Meir, “Don’t be so humble; you’re not that great.” Sources: http://www.enotes.com/if Rate answer: $(‘#aScore-9225’).istars(setAnswerRating); Flag as inappropriate Posted by jamie-wheeler on Sunday August 26, 2007 at 9:24 AM sagetrieb Teacher Doctorate Enotes provides a fine overview of the poem: “If” is a didactic poem, a work meant to give instruction. In this case, “If” serves as an instruction in several specific traits of a good leader. Kipling offers this instruction not through listing specific characteristics, but by providing concrete illustrations of the complex actions a man should or should not take which would reflect these cha
