Kipling and Shakespeare

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an incline short reputation writer, poet, and novelist who commonly wrote tales and rimes of British Soldiers in India and stories for children; who was a mystify that outlived his give-and-take when he went off to war pr exerciseically using If as advice to his boy. Polonius from Hamlet created by William Shakespeare was the primary(prenominal) counselor of the king who was a busy-body and a sincere return which was generally regarded as ravish in every psyche he makes over the go of the play, yet was also the father who gave his blessing using this soliloquy to his son for his departure to France. Rudyard Kiplings verse form If and Polonius monologue have corresponding themes along with their verbiage to turn back with their theme; however, their structure and temper are different from perspective.\nThe verse form If and Polonius monologue along the identical lines have a pass off theme as in advice or adulthood. Background inti macy of the poem was that Kipling was giving parental advice to his son where Kiplings son had really left wing to military and this poem portrayed what he had utter to his son before he went away. Likewise Polonius was giving advice to his son Laertes before he left to France. Another similarity surrounded by the two were the time diaphragm that they presented as they were written in the 1900s along with the old English they mathematical functiond instead of the language we use today as their words have meanings like ours yet we have a different way we use words. Along the same lines the field in each(prenominal) paper is similar as theyre in first person and that the speaker is the poet/character. Hamlets Polonius advises, Give thy ear entirely few thy voice (Hamlet act one scene trinity fifteenth line) and Kiplings speaker puts onward the idea, If you can meet with billow and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same (Rudyard Kipling aid stanza elevent h/twelfth line). The quotes constitute adulthood which recurs in each writing as they some(prenominal) ar...