Originally Posted by
white tigress:
“That was soooo funny!! Perez going, 'Your Mom's so talented and poetic'. Missed opportunity for Hopkins in not reciting most of it as it was read aloud--esp the final lines. Hilarious! Then idiot Perez going 'It's a coded message', like Kipling psychically knew someday CBB would exist. 
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I've just watched it, think Perez said 'your mum's like a poet'.
Hopkins said 'It's a poem, I think it's by Kipling'

so doubt very much she could recite it!
Originally Posted by white tigress:
“Shame Perez is so Ignorant--he claims to be a College Graduate, too! His Acting classes were a total waste except he could work in Panto or chilll-drennnn-sss showssss be-cause he speakssss so slowly and dee-libb-errr-at-e-ly as if we're all thick, kids, or don't speak English. Maybe a nasty Sesame Street format??”
'If' is a product of colonial Britain, there's no reason why any American outside of those who studied (British) English literature would even have heard of it unless they were poetry buffs or came across it for some other reason.