If by Rudyard Kipling
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@Erz247 I loose respect for someone that says, "it's all going to work out fine. I feel it." Statements like that do no nothing for me except that the person saying them means well. It's the only virtue in a statement like that. There are so many "hallow" versions of this statement that I bet you all could tell me one that drives you up the wall. Anyone?
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@dundalkmd it basicaly means that the words that you speak will be twisted and a wrong meaning will be taken out of them by dshonest men and you have to bear that and think wisely about it
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I think it means something like when you have said a truth that is true in your heart, with the right feelings that cause it.... like for example: "Everything will be good." wich is so if you have the right feelings causing it...
and you're watching someone who should be doing something cause he is in an urgent situation doing nothing, saying the word's "Everything will be good."
a thruth that is used with the wrong background and turned to something hollow
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wtf is this
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not a bad effort.....look up "if mike bassett "and give it another go....you lack some passion......research what kiplings son meant to him and you will prob get it.......sorry if i sound rude,its a beautiful piece and very few on the planet have the knack to carry it off
2 years ago 2
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I love this poem so much. Back to listen to it again. Nothing but kind words to you sir, thank you for reading it aloud. Annette
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i was i guess haha
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What does this stanza mean" If you can bear to hear the truth that you have spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools" ?
dundalkmd 2 years ago
just think of the political "sound bite" and I think you'll have your answer
it refers to things taken out of context or otherwise deliberately misrepresented
think of Karl Marx's saying "to each according to his needs, from each according to his ability"
this phrase is commonly held out as an example of a just society, then the trap is sprung: "Aha! That is from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto! If you agree, then you must be a communist!"
PoetAnonymous 2 years ago
good, excellengt, well done
bafr1 4 years ago
thank you
I liked your reading of it, too
it's a great poem
my mom had it hanging on the wall in a frame when I was a kid, and I have always liked it
PoetAnonymous 4 years ago