In this text I am going to explane what is the message and some my considerations and conclusions about the poem "If", written by the novelist Rudyard Kipling for his son.

I think that this poem's message is that you have to never give up, also in front of difficulties and obstacles, so you have to be perseviring. You must always hold on and go on your way, even if all the other people around you are against you, so you have to be self-confident too, but you also have to never lose your common origin, never look too good or talk too wise, therefore you have to be modest and honest. You have to be imaginative and patient too.

I think that Kipling, writing this poem, was right, because if you want to be a decent person you have to be like that, you must have all those characteristics. It isn't very easy to being this way, but I think that if at the end of your life you have succeeded in being it, you can consider yourself a decent person.

I think that Kipling wrote a poem and not a letter because in this way he could use figures of speech and some sentences cuold have double meaning. At the end I would say that in my opinion Kipling's son has to be very proud of his dad, because this poem is full of meaning and it teaches a lot to everyone who reads it. Reading it you can become a very decent and admired person.