Question

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 have spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

Answer 1

Explanation: In this stanza the poet advises us that we should have ambitions but we should not depend only on imaginations and dreaming. We should be able to give concrete shape to our dreams. We should be same in weal and woe. We should not be proud on our success and should not be disappointed in failures. We should be able to bear the misrepresented truths also. We should be able to rebuild the things which we made by our life-long efforts but now they have been destroyed. If we have all these qualities in ourselves, we shall be a man in real sense.