Lyric-Scroll 008: If You Can Stay Calm While Everyone Else Self-Destructs: Kipling’s Emotional Instruction Manual
Stoicism, Sweat, and One Man’s Quest to Explain Manhood in 32 Lines (Without Breathing) ABS Believes:Some poems hold your hand. This one slaps it, gives you a checklist, and walks off.“If—” is less a poem, more a poetic gym instructor yelling through rhyme. Kipling: The Poet Who Wrote Pep Talks in Pentameter Rudyard Kipling didn’t […]