Success. One word that everyone interprets differently. Some may see success measured in money, others may Others may see success measured in respect and what they have accomplished throughout their lifetime. Some may also define success as a thousand failures that lead to a success. Although, nobody can define success for you; everyone's opinions differ. Rudyard Kipling’s “If” and Haki Aitoro’s “What Will Be Your Legacy?” both of the narrators are fathers; however, they differ in why they wrote it and for whom. The poems also have very different tones and the mood that is set is tremendously different.
To begin, the occasion in “If” is different than in “What Will Be Your Legacy?”. In “if” Kipling wrote the poem for a child entering …show more content…
In the poem “What Will Be Your Legacy” the author, Haki Aitoro, has a very regretful tone. Haki is talking to himself throughout the poem, asking: “Do I wander through life aimlessly?... Will I leave disillusioned children?... Will I leave appalled individuals?/ Disgusted and revolted… For I disrespected many good folk”(1-39). You can tell that he is very upset with himself and he realizes all the mistakes he has made. Along with that, he asks questions then tries answering them himself. In “If” the author, Rudyard Kipling, has a very uplifting and motivational tone, evincing: “If you can make one heap of all of your winnings/ and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings/ And never breathe a word about your loss...Yours is the Earth and everything in it”(17-31). He really builds up the positivity as he goes and makes it more enticing. He is also teaching you how to be successful from his own positive experiences, while Haki Aitoro’s wants you to learn from his failure and be more successful than he was throughout his …show more content…
In “If”, Kipling writes the poem in a father's point of view, proven in first paragraph. Equally, in “What Will Be Your Legacy”, Aitoro also wrote in a fathers point of view, expressing: “Fatherhood was not my forte/ For I struggled to maintain my youth”(58-59). Lastly, both poems have the same purpose. They are both for informing others. They want to spread their experiences for the future generations to learn
To begin, the occasion in “If” is different than in “What Will Be Your Legacy?”. In “if” Kipling wrote the poem for a child entering …show more content…
In the poem “What Will Be Your Legacy” the author, Haki Aitoro, has a very regretful tone. Haki is talking to himself throughout the poem, asking: “Do I wander through life aimlessly?... Will I leave disillusioned children?... Will I leave appalled individuals?/ Disgusted and revolted… For I disrespected many good folk”(1-39). You can tell that he is very upset with himself and he realizes all the mistakes he has made. Along with that, he asks questions then tries answering them himself. In “If” the author, Rudyard Kipling, has a very uplifting and motivational tone, evincing: “If you can make one heap of all of your winnings/ and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings/ And never breathe a word about your loss...Yours is the Earth and everything in it”(17-31). He really builds up the positivity as he goes and makes it more enticing. He is also teaching you how to be successful from his own positive experiences, while Haki Aitoro’s wants you to learn from his failure and be more successful than he was throughout his …show more content…
In “If”, Kipling writes the poem in a father's point of view, proven in first paragraph. Equally, in “What Will Be Your Legacy”, Aitoro also wrote in a fathers point of view, expressing: “Fatherhood was not my forte/ For I struggled to maintain my youth”(58-59). Lastly, both poems have the same purpose. They are both for informing others. They want to spread their experiences for the future generations to learn