SAMACHEER - ENGLISH- 10 STD - POEM - MANLINESS

2. Standard X
Unit III-Poem
Manliness

3. • When will you enjoy the real happiness in life?
• What are the qualities necessary for a man to
succeed in his life?
• What is your aim or future plan?

4. About the Poet
• Poet : Joseph Rudyard Kipling
• Birth : 30th
Dec 1865, Mumbai
• Award : Nobel Prize in Literature
• Books : The Jungle book, Baa Baa Black
Sheep, If etc.,

5. This poem Manliness is an extract taken from
the poem ‘If’ in which a father advises his son,
the way to come out as an outstanding citizen.

6. Dream alone won’t bring success
The poet asks to dream or to have aim in
life and not make the dreams overlook him.

7. Ability to act than the ability to dream
One should not stop with the thoughts or plans
to reach the goal .
The thoughts must be put into action.
Thoughts must be activated.

8. Treat both Triumph and Disaster the
same
One should treat both success and failure
equally as they are personified as impostors.

9. Hard work leads to success
• The thoughts or the plans must be actioned
whole heartedly with the nerves and sinew.

10. Nothing is permanent except the
willpower
• Due to age, the nerves and sinew may lose
power but one should ‘keep up’ the
willpower.

11. Time is precious,
Time once lost is lost for ever
One should submit himself to the unforgiving
quality of time and should use it worthfully.
One minute is not just, a minute. It is equal to
sixty…. Seconds.
One who uses the time perfectly without
wasting it, may get the world in his hands.

12. The poet, through the mouth of the
father says
A boy’s dream has an aim,
But a man’s dream has determination.

13. Perseverance
Self-confidence and
Hard work
always lead to
success..

14. Poetic devices
• Anaphora: The repetition of a word or phrase at
the beginning of successive clauses.
If you can dream and not make dreams your
master.
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.
• Oxymoron: Prediction of two words or phrases
having opposite meaning.
If you can treat with triumph and disaster.

15. Poetic devices
• Personification: Attributing human
qualities on non-living things.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
Time is personified with the human quality
of unforgiving nature.
And treat those two impostors just the same
Triumph and disaster are personified with
the human quality of deceiving nature.

16. Poetic devices
• Alliteration: The repetition of the consonant
sounds.
With sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rhyming words & Rhyme scheme:
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.
• Rhyming words: master – disaster
aim – same
• Rhyme Scheme: ab ab