Question

Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:

“If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies”

i. Name the poem and the poet. 1

ii. What could one be waiting for? 1

iii. How can someone not be tired of waiting? 1

iv. Why should one not deal in lies​

Answer 1

Answer:

i. The poem's name is 'IF' by Rudyard Kipling.

ii. One could be waiting for success or the results of their hard work.

iii. One can not be tired of waiting by keeping themselves busy and working towards new goals.

iv. One should not deal in lies because the truth always comes out and one will just get themself in trouble bu lying.