Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format : (5 marks)The Will to WinIf you want a thing bad enoughto go out and fight for it,work day and night for it,give up your time and your pe…

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Q.3 (B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format : (5 marks) The Will to Win If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, work day and night for it, give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it. If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity If neither cold or poverty, famished or gaunt or sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want, If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, with the help of GOD you’ll get it! — Berton Braley You can use the following points while appreciating the given poem : The title (½) • The poet of the poem (½) • Rhyme scheme (1) • Figures of speech (1) • Central idea/theme. (2)

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Appreciation : The poem ‘The Will to Win’ is written by the American poet Berton Braley. The title declares its subject at once — the iron determination that makes a person go on until the goal is won. The poem is written in free verse and so has no regular rhyme scheme, but the repeated phrase “for it” at the end of the lines gives it a strong, marching rhythm. The poet uses Anaphora (line after line opens with “If”), Repetition (“for it”, “that thing that you want”), Alliteration (“strength and sagacity”, “besiege and beset”) and internal Rhyme (“sweat for, fret for”, “pain / of body and brain”). The central idea is that success is not a gift of luck but the reward of total dedication : one must work day and night, give up sleep and peace, face cold, poverty, sickness and opposition without fear, and besiege the goal “with the help of God”. The poem thus urges the reader to turn determination into achievement.

Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format : (5 marks)The Will to WinIf you want a thing bad enoughto go out and fight for it,work day and night for it,give up your time and your pe…

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