Question

Read this line and answer thw question that follows-

If you can force your heart and now and sinew
To serve and turn long after they had gone,

How can you make them 'serve your turn long after they are gone'?

From poem "If"by Rudyard Kipling​

Answer 1

Answer:

He's saying that if you can overcome your human frailties by force of will, endure things when you should be past the point of human endurance....

It was very much part of Kipling's view of "Britishness" that a man should be stoic and resilient. The whole "Stiff Upper Lip" culture is ingrained quite deeply into us Brits and was certainly how I was raised.