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IF it is true that familiarity breeds contempt, it would explain the
contradictions that surround Rudyard Kipling's famous poem If-. On the one hand
it is one of the most popular and best-known poems in the English language. On
the other this enormous popularity has done it a disservice. For instance,
despite appearing in many anthologies of verse, If- is excluded from The New
Oxford Book of English Verse. Instead, editor Helen Gardner selects Kipling's
Mandalay, Danny Deever, Cities and Thrones and Powers, The Way through the
Woods, and the imperialistic Recessional.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), poet,
short-story writer and novelist, was born in Bombay. He was sent to England to
be educated, and then returned to India at the age of 17, where he rapidly made
a name for himself as a superb journalist and caustic observer of Anglo- Indian
society. He returned to England in 1889, where he achieved celebrity status with
his poems of army life, Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), which established him as an
unofficial spokesman for the then much-despised British soldier, and for the
British Empire. From this period until his death, Kipling's reputation was to
vary according to the political climate.
Kipling was inclined to be
crudely chauvinistic, and to display unpleasant arrogance towards peoples ruled
by or hostile to Britain, though he also emphasised British responsibility for
the welfare of the governed peoples. Be that as it may, it is interesting to
note that his most enduringly popular works are two of his children's books, The
Jungle Book (1894-5) and the Just So Stories (1902), the latter of which Kipling
illustrated himself. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Kipling's poetry is striking for its success in using, vividly and
musically, popular forms of speech such as the dramatic monologue and ballad
tradition. He was also able to write poetry appropriate for public occasions and
capable of stirring the feelings of a large public. His poetry is generally
simple in its components but, when it rises above the level of doggerel, strong
in its impact. It needs to be read in selection.
Which brings us back to
If-. The poem first appeared in Kipling's less celebrated children's book
Rewards and Fairies (1910). Apart from its over-quoted opening lines `If you can
keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you', its
most memorable lines are in the final stanza:
If you can talk with
crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common
touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all
men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving
minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the
earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a
Man, my son!
In his autobiography Kipling was candid both about the poem
and its success. He felt that the lines had been "anthologised to weariness" and
claimed that they had done him no good with "the Young", who were always
complaining to him that they had to write them out "as an impot", (ie. an
`imposition', public school parlance for lines written out as a form of
punishment)!
As for the content of the poem, he said that it "contained
counsels of perfection most easy to give". And that is the point: The many
conditions that make up the single thirty-two line sentence of the poem are, of
course, impossible to fulfil. No one gets to be `a Man' if these are the
requirements. Though admirable in themselves, and worth aiming at, the standards
required are unattainable; this is the test that everyone fails...
Not
so much an inventory of wholesome duties as an accessible `metaphysical' poem -
Kipling was influenced by John Donne's poem The Undertaking - If- is both
exuberant and solemn in its depiction of the ethical battlefield facing the
young adolescent. As so often with Kipling's poetry, the overall impression of
If- is far more interesting than its individual cliches. Despite outmoded
references to `knaves', `pitch-and-toss', `Kings' and `Man', the poem - like
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken - has an appeal that transcends time and
place. Indeed, in today's hard-edged world it is every bit as inspirational and
relevant as it was in the long-vanished world of 1910.
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