Each "if" is an if that I will wonder too like the similar if's in the poem. The title "if" seems mysterious but I like how it leaves you wondering what its going to be about. There are so many things you can "if" about so thought the title was a creative yet mysterious touch to the poem. I thought that all these ifs are something that a teenager thought of and the author wrote them down in a poem. This poem yet deep and interesting at the same time. Normally I don't like poems but this poem caught my attention because after I read it I felt that I could relate to it.
The theme to me is the Ifs that deal with a different aspect of life that young teenagers think about as they get older. The first stanza I paraphrased it so that it could say what happens if you can keep your head up, if you can trust yourself, if you can wait, and not get tired of it. The second stanza is the ifs to your dream and your thought but also bearing the truth. The third stanza paraphrased it to say the two main ifs which are making a heap of all your winning and force your heart. The fourth stanza I thought it could say the Ifs of the friends, men you in the end.
The most obvious pattern in "If" is the topic organization in all the stanzas. The effect it might create is the organization of the ifs since there are different major themes in each stanzas. The major themes Kipling addresses are waiting and trusting in lines one through five, ten through fifteen are about dreams, thoughts, and truth then lines seventeen through twenty-four are about winnings and heart. Lastly the major themes in lines twenty-five through thirty-two are men,(un)forgiveness and friends.
In the end this poem built up a great story that had a mysterious title to it so I liked a lot. This poem seems like something that I could read over and over again which is the first for me. I still love the title "If" because its mysterious and creative.
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