Would this Poem be Popular?

Question

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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 all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath 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!


--Rudyard Kipling

Answer 1

Would it be popular? It has been, is, and will continue to be!
It is one of the best known poems and one of the most quoted. It also holds some sort of distinction because it has been printed singularly on post cards and has sold in the millions. I thought every school child in England had to learn it,I certainly did.

Answer 2

Any thing by Rudyyard Kipling would be popular. Did you write it or did he:).
I am not a fan of his, and never read hs stuff, but yes this would be counted as popular if published.

Answer 3

What a boring, trite pile of old shite. I thought we'd moved out of the dark ages.
I knew Rudyard had been caught Kipling but I thought he'd got over it at his age.

Answer 4

Its used alot in school, why? i dont understand yet from what i heard it exhibits very much imagery and gets you thinking with regard to the little issues, like a sunset and how captivating that's. yet rather how captivating a walk interior the snowy woods is.

Answer 5

the first few lines have been quoted several places I think, trhey seem very familiar

Answer 6

If it wasn't so boring, perhaps I could have read more than the first three or four lines.