Rudyard Kipling: Poems
Why does the poet want the triumph and disaster to be treated the same?
The poem if- by Rudyard Kipling
The poem if- by Rudyard Kipling
The speaker is referring to the stoic spirit of the individual who sees both triumph and disaster in the same light. Both triumph and disaster are momentary events: they come and they go. A person must always see these events as simply part of life rather than something one has won or lost.