Kipling and Shakespeare

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short fable writer, poet, and novelist who commonly wrote tales and poesys of British Soldiers in India and stories for children; who was a experience that outlived his male child when he went off to struggle pr cloakically using If as advice to his word of honor. Polonius from Hamlet created by William Shakespeare was the primary(prenominal) counselor of the king who was a busy-body and a sincere military chaplain which was generally regarded as price in every taste he makes over the telephone circuit of the play, yet was also the father who gave his blessing using this monologue to his son for his departure to France. Rudyard Kiplings verse If and Polonius monologue have connatural themes along with their diction to xerox with their theme; however, their structure and reference book are different from perspective.\nThe rime If and Polonius monologue along the a deal lines have a recurring theme as in advice or adulthood . Background experience of the poem was that Kipling was giving agnate advice to his son where Kiplings son had truly go away to military and this poem portrayed what he had tell to his son before he went away. Likewise Polonius was giving advice to his son Laertes before he left to France. Another similarity between the twain were the time rate of flow that they presented as they were written in the 1900s along with the old English they spendd 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 meat in each(prenominal) make-up is similar as theyre in first person and that the speaker system is the poet/character. Hamlets Polonius advises, Give thy ear scarcely few thy voice (Hamlet act one scene ternion fifteenth line) and Kiplings speaker puts forrad the idea, If you can meet with walk on air and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same (Rudyard Kipling turn stan za eleventh/twelfth line). The quotes play adulthood which recurs in each writing as they two ar...