What Does This Stanza Mean *The poem If by Rudyard kipling*?

Question

If you can dream and not make dreams your master ;
If you can think and not make thought 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;

Were doing a presentation on this poem 'If" and im going to explain all the stanzas whiles my partners are doing the tone etc etc etc and so on...this is the second stanza...

this is my translation...orderly* if im wrong plz do say..

- dont daydream , keep separate of reality and your dreams

- dont think what you think is always right

and so far thats all i could understand...

Answer 1

This link below has some explanations

http://www.eliteskills.com/c/2207

Answer 2

You have chosen (or are given) rather a difficult poem to paraphrase. Let me see how good I still am, since my university days decades ago :)
Dream, imagine, but do not let all your dreams get a control over you so that you lose contact with the realities of the world. You should think, but do not make all your thought your only aim to reach; be rational. Triumph can make you drunk with the feeling of success, while disaster may put you in great dispair. Do not let either take control of you. When you speak the truth, some people will twist it and use it against you or against other naive people. You should be able to bear the consequences. You will spend your life to create positive things but they may be broken down. You should not give up. You should start from nothing and buil them up again using the very tools you have used before (your honesty and integrity).