Jamaica Kincaid And If By Rudyard Kipling

The two poems, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling both are about parents giving advice to their children about the real world and the feature they have in front of them. In “Girl” the mother wants her to be a good polite adult and not a “boy crazy girl” that the mother is saying she is set on becoming. In the poem that Rudyard Kipling wrote, “If” is about a father giving true smart advice to his son, so he can become a good, smart man. These two poems both have the same topic and theme, but the perspective of the parents make the stories unsimilar. The topic of the two themes are the same, preparing children for the real world ahead. In the poem “Girl”, the moms says,” Walk like a lady and not like ‘boy crazy girl’.”