The Will to Win Appreciation | Explanation 10th Class KUMARBHARATI
The poem is about the willpower that makes you successful in life. In this poem, the poet teaches us to have the will to win, come what may.
The poem “The Will to Win” will ask to write an appreciation in the exam and on stanzas, the activities will come to solve in the exam.
Introduction:The Will to Win Appreciation
Berton Braley was born in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. He inherited his father’s talent in writing and had shown his talent at a young age of eleven, when he published his first work – a fairy tale called “Why the grass is green”.
Braley was considered a person who was always optimistic and held the belief that everything is possible. Braley had written around 4,000 verses and several hundred short stories making him one of the most widely read American poets of his era.
Poem:
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
Glossary:
scheme – plan
fret : worry, be anxious
sagacity : wisdom and good judgement
pertinacity :constant determination
famished : extremely hungry
gaunt : very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
grim : serious, unhappy
Explanation: The Will to Win Appreciation
First Stanza:
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
- In the poem, the poet tells that if you want to achieve a thing completely and you persist in it, you don’t have to keep quiet. You have to go out and struggle with great efforts to achieve the thing. You have to work hard day and night for success. For success you have to give up your leisure time and rest for it, you have to give your peace and make a mess of efforts for it and give up your sleep until you get success.
Second Stanza:
If all that you dream
and scheme is about it and life
seems useless and worthless without it
- In the second stanza, the poet tells that if your dream and plan of action are about your success you want to achieve it and you feel that your life seems useless and worthless (valueless) without your success that means you have the will to win.
Third Stanza:
If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose
all your terror of the opposition for it.
- In the third stanza, the poet tells that if you happily (gladly) work hard for it and sweat for it then definitely you have the willpower to win. If you are very concerned about your success and have a plan of action for it that means you must be concerned about your achievement and do some plan of action about it.
- While achieving your success, you don’t have to think about those things which are opposing you to get the thing. You have to give up the fear that there are obstacles in the way which may stop you to achieve the thing in your life.
Forth Stanza:
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.
- In the fourth stanza, the poet tells that if you simply chase your dream and go after that thing that you want to achieve with all of your capacity, strength and wisdom and good judgement then you have the will to win. If you have faith, hope, enough confidence, constant determination and extreme hunger to achieve the thing then definitely you have the will to win.
Fifth Stanza:
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,
- In the fifth stanza, the poet tells that if you above qualities then neither cold, poverty, extreme hunger, gauntness, sickness nor pain of your body and mind (brain) can keep you away from the thing that you want to achieve in your life.
Sixth Stanza:
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
with the help of GOD you’ll
In the last the poet tells that if you persist in your dream and are serious about it and you (besiege) surround over the thing, capture the thing then definitely with the help of God you will achieve the thing that you want to get in life.
Appreciation: The Will to Win Appreciation
- The poem, The Will to Win is written by the great poet Berton Braley. The title of the poem “The Will to Win” is apt and suitable to the theme of the poem. In this poem, the poet teaches us to have the will to win, come what may.
- The theme/ central idea of the poem, The Will to Win is that if we have the desire to achieve the thing in our life then we will definitely get it. In the poem, the poet tells some qualities while achieving the thing. If you have the qualities like a plan of action, being ready to fight for it, the tendency to work hard day and night, sweat for it, serious about your goal, capacity, strength, wisdom and good judgement, faith in yourself, hope for it, have confidence and seriously determine towards your goal then you will get success in your life.
- The poem is free verse. It has not any rhyming words or rhyme scheme. In the poem, there are figures of speech such as Alliteration, Repetition, Antithesis, Climax and Tautology to make the poem more effective. The poem is highly effective and the tone of the poem is optimistic about life. The language of the poem is simple and meaningful.
- My favourite line in the poem is “With the help of God you will get it.” It is true that if we want a thing in life, you will get the thing with bless of God and without the help of God we will not achieve the thing. That’s why it is my favourite line of the poem “The Will to Win.”
- I like the poem very much and I am inspired by the poet’s thoughts. In this poem, the poet tells us that if you have the will to win in your life then you must have the qualities of winner. The poet discusses different qualities that we must keep with us while achieving our goals. Definitely, I will acquire such qualities in my life to achieve my dream.
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