Here are two magnificent pieces of literature. One is a poem which is called “If-” and the other a memoir, that is called “Kipling and I.” The poem “If-” talks about how you learn to be a better person through life lessons, morals, and endurance. In the memoir “Kipling and I” reflects back on the poem “If-” because this assists or inspires the person to keep going. It is like “Kipling and I” has “If-” inside. Throughout this writing we will be looking at: what Jesus Colon is using from the poem “If-” to respond to, how they look similar, and in what way does this improve Colon through tough times.
In the memoir “Kipling and I” Jesus Colon responds to what was said in the poem “If-.” The poem “If-” said “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s …show more content…
The poem “If-” explains that even if you are in bad times you should keep trusting that you can go one with what is happening, although you have nothing to stand on firmly, Rudyard Kipling said “And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;”. In the memoir the same thing happened Colon he said “I watched how the lines of the poem withered into ashes inside the small stove.” Only that Colon’s bad time was having to burn his poem although he could keep going because he had memorized it. Yet, he had nothing to look at physically which meant he had nothing to stand on. Facing the truth and not letting your dreams stop your thinking and making it inspirational for life like Kipling says in the poem “If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;” is also what Colon does throughout his life in the memoir. The memoir, never does he decide to just live until he dies of hunger “Every morning as I prepared to leave, I stood in front of the poem and read it over and over again, sometimes half a dozen times.” Instead he uses the poem as inspiration and not as a dream that he thinks he will never achieve. So what they mostly have in common is that throughout the both pieces it talks about never giving up in difficult times and to find a little bit of
In the memoir “Kipling and I” Jesus Colon responds to what was said in the poem “If-.” The poem “If-” said “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s …show more content…
The poem “If-” explains that even if you are in bad times you should keep trusting that you can go one with what is happening, although you have nothing to stand on firmly, Rudyard Kipling said “And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;”. In the memoir the same thing happened Colon he said “I watched how the lines of the poem withered into ashes inside the small stove.” Only that Colon’s bad time was having to burn his poem although he could keep going because he had memorized it. Yet, he had nothing to look at physically which meant he had nothing to stand on. Facing the truth and not letting your dreams stop your thinking and making it inspirational for life like Kipling says in the poem “If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;” is also what Colon does throughout his life in the memoir. The memoir, never does he decide to just live until he dies of hunger “Every morning as I prepared to leave, I stood in front of the poem and read it over and over again, sometimes half a dozen times.” Instead he uses the poem as inspiration and not as a dream that he thinks he will never achieve. So what they mostly have in common is that throughout the both pieces it talks about never giving up in difficult times and to find a little bit of