Explain the ideas expressed in the given lines; "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn , long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on"
Answers
These lines are from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If'. Here the poet is sharing his thoughts about what makes an individual a worthy man/person.
These lines focus on strength of character. The poet believes that one should not give up hope, but should continue to make efforts to achieve a goal.
There may be times when a person is extremely tired and wants to give up, physically, mentally and emotionally, but he should not. This is the real testing time. If the person can continue to hang on, and not give up or lose hope even when his heart (emotions), nerve (intellect) and sinews (muscles) are exhausted, if he can through sheer determination continue his struggle and make his entire being (emotional, mental and physical being) carry on just on will power, he will eventually be a successful and worthy human being.
In short, these lines mean that a worthy man is he who, despite being tired physically, mentally and emotionally, continues to be determined and overcomes all hurdles to achieve his objective.
HELLO DEAR,
The above lines are taken from the poem Rudyard Kipling's poem.
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,
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, not talk to wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thought your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken
Twisted by connects to make a trap for fools.
When a person feel as thought we cannot go on he must never give up. Sometimes a person has world so hard that it seems that he had hold down and cannot continue.