Who Did Kipling Write If for?
"If—" Is a Poem by English Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), Written Circa 1895 as a Tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Why Did Kipling Write If?...
"If—" is a poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson.
Why did Kipling write If?
Kipling wrote the poem as if it were talking to his son. He gives advice to help the young man to find his place in the world and to live with integrity and dignity. ... This encourages the reader to place himself in the place of the son.
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Who is the poem If seemingly addressed to?
Perhaps his most famous poem, "If" is addressed to a young boy and was written for his young son, John, as an instruction in becoming an upright and good man. John was killed almost a decade later, in 1915, during battle in World War I.
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