"If" poem by Rudyard Kipling (British accent)
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Read in a southern British accent.
Audio (c) 2012 Martin Harris
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn--out tools:
If you can make one heap of all 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;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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!
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make allowance for -- accept/tolerate/forgive
keep your head -- stay in control/don't go crazy
doubting -- unbelieving/not trusting
deal in -- involve in /take part in
wise -- clever or with wisdom
triumph -- winning, success or victory
disaster -- failure or tragedy
impostor(s) -- pretender/fake
bear -- stand/accept
knave(s) -- cheater/dishonest person
stoop -- to bend the body forward or backward
build 'em up = build them up
worn-out -- over-used/exhausted
heap -- a large collection of something / a pile
pitch-and-toss -- "throw--and--flip" of a coin /gamble
nerve -- (metaphorically) courage and control under pressure
sinew -- muscle, (metaphorically) strength/power
will -- determination/spirit
virtue -- good value/quality
common touch -- ability to communicate with ordinary people.
foes -- enemies
Listening to this Poem helps me every time i am about to give in to that Feeling that my life is all fucked up...
Thank you very much, Martin! This is one of the best records of Kipling's poems on the UA-cam! It would be so nice to hear more Kipling from you!
How unusual to see an ukrainian-speaking person here! From Russia with lovе!
Thank you Oleksandr!
My English teacher is making me memorize this whole poem, I already have it down since we're presenting tomorrow 😫
I love this poem. And I would love to learn it of by heart!! Its so deep
I wanted to hear in Real English this wonderful poem. Thanks
This is my favourite poem, back in high school this is in our literature text from Malaysia :)
It's mine too :))
Very nice voice and excellent accent
Thanks :)
I have can do it off by heart, I'm going to use it in my speaking and listening assessment at school.
An extended pause or 40 wouldn't go amiss.When Kipling said "don't breath" he never meant it too be taken quite so literally.However prop's for getting the best poem ever written (I.M.O) out there.Peace✌
So beautifully done
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed the reading. Just the right speed. Now, give us more! Perhaps some Wordsworth etc. Once again, thank you.
This is the best ever poem .
Sung this in the 9th grade. Can't believe I was such a little kid back then. I'm really not ready for manhood yet!
amazing felt rubbish until I watched this looks like I'm going to be good today # IF
i dance to this i have just won a comp with this poem .... !
SO THOUGHTFUL....
I like that 😊, especially your accent!
Very nicely read. Thanks!
Thank you.
Wonderful video!! Classy British accent. Thank you! Sincerely, with love from Canada, Evy
Thank you :)
Good reading. My (constructive) comments, if I may:
The 2nd verse: where you see the "-", you should pause longer (longer than where you have paused for a ",")
The end of the last line has an exclamation mark, but you don't make it sound like an exclamation.
I hope you are not offended by these comments.
Hi Bern, No offence taken. Thanks for the useful comments. I'll bear them in mind next time I recite this, and also if I ever re-record it. The more I read and record poems, the more more reading style evolves (and hopefully improves!)
Martin Harris Hi Martin. When I look at the original poem, I concentrate on the use of his punctuation. I think he has been very clever in the writing and he knows the difference between the use of a comma, a semi-colon and a hyphen. That was his way of communicating how it should be recited (even the exclamation mark!). It would be wonderful to hear him reciting this fabulous poem! My only grouse: it's only written for men!
Bern From Wales Hi, Bern. Please, read the YOUR POEM by Robert Service.
"My poem may be yours indeed In melody and tone, If in its rhythm you can read A music of your own; If in its pale woof you can weave Your lovelier design, 'Twill make my lyric, I believe, More yours than mine. I'm but a prompter at the best; Crude cues are all I give. In simple stanzas I suggest - 'Tis you who make them live. My bit of rhyme is but a frame, And if my lines you quote, I think, although they bear my name, 'Tis you who wrote. Yours is the beauty that you see In any words I sing; The magic and the melody 'Tis you, dear friend, who bring. Yea, by the glory and the gleam, The loveliness that lures Your thought to starry heights of dream, The poem's yours."
I'm a Yorkshire Englishman and i bet this would sound even better if Tom Jones narrated this. His deep booming voice would add another element to the poem.
If my favorite poem or words , if only we could put wise heads on young shoulders , read like you mean it absorb the words like a sponge SueX
i like this.
I like your reading very much, but I 'm afraid it is too fast for a foreigner
If you want to learn it by heart. Nevertheless, it was very helpful.
Интересно, они знают так же хорошо нашу поэзию как мы их?
I think... no.) But do we know their poems well?
вэл, ни вэл, а все же достаточно хорошо.....
Наталья Шмелева Well, they might not know our poetry well, but they certainly know our prose well. Poetry is a too tied to language to be translated well between languages so different from each other as Russian and English.
very good reading and poem
Very wise and useful philosophy.
Holey fuck that's deep.
*holy
In English it sounds great.
I love it which excellent poem
This poem, is a synopsis on my life....iF We had more choices in this life!
This life is a very hard life to live, when I was a child, i lived in ignorance and thought all things would make amends and be made right in time. How naive i was then, to release the adult world is a cold north wind in the face of idealistic dreams. For me its been loveless, cold and a big stuggle, just working to live...sad to say.
lol I used this to see the 4th stanza for a test hahaha
Quiero estar tranquila respecto de la seguridad y buen funcionamiento de la CPU.
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A beautiful interpretation of an Italian actor
IF - Se - Kipling - Lettera al figlio - Poesia
that's deep
Hi, can I use your audio in my video edit? Of course I'll give you the credits in the bio
Hi, could you send more details to me please?
martin@norwichenglish.co.uk
What is the video? Who is it for? Where will it be posted? Will you make money from it? Thank you, Martin
if if n if
good voice ;)
Ever heard of pauses ? at least you don't have the musical background, re do this & about 4 mins
dammit, when i am trying to repeat this, it sounds like Irish accent xDDD
Good applied Masonic thinking..Not direcf..but diffused into practicality.
gud one
epic
It's called "If" for a reason, cos you have absolutely no chance of having all these characteristics and traits.