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You are responsible for knowing the meaning of each word in the poem. On the left of the poem, write out the meanings of any words you didn’t originally know. On the right of the poem, depict the dominant image/s developed in each stanza. Memorize the poem according to the timetable announced in class. On the back practice writing out, from memory, each stanza.
Word Meanings
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth By Arthur Hugh Clough Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!
Compose a 5th stanza of your own that uses a new metaphor and new imagery to convey the poem’s theme:
Images
Positive Double Negative Thinking
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Use the boxes below to practice writing out each stanza from memory as we memorize them in class.
Use the boxes below to practice writing out the entire poem from memory before you are asked to do it in class.
1st stanza
1st stanza
2nd stanza
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3rd stanza
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4th stanza
4th stanza
