About Us Our Mission & Vision Our History Our Leadership Our Management. Taken just as a poem, it's the best-crafted of the three. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. His importance as a poet lies mainly in the quality of his thoughts. John Carey’s poem of the week — Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough. 2. Entdecken Sie Say Not The Struggle Nought Availeth von Sir Derek Jacobi bei Amazon Music. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

In the first stanza the poet says that all struggles bear fruit; all the labor done and all the wounds received in fighting the enemy succeed in defeating the enemy.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 5 It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. Arthur Hugh Clough. The lines given for explanation have been extracted from the poem entitled Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth, composed by Arthur Hugh Clough. A summary of a classic Victorian poem ‘Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth’ is one of two poems by the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) which are still widely read, anthologised, and analysed, the other being his satire on Victorian attitudes to …
Clough himself spent 1848 in Italy during the “Year of Revolutions”, most of which were defeated within a few years. Say Not Struggle Naught Availeth. Our Philosophy is the opening line of the poem by Arthur Hugh Clough. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth 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. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain. “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth” is now enshrined on my cell wall. And all things change with determined struggle.

Arthur Hugh Clough’s poem “Say not the struggle naught availeth” was written in 1849 the aftermath of the collapse of Chartism, a movement that demanded universal male suffrage, secret ballots and other democratic reforms. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 5: It may be, in yon smoke conceal’d, Your comrades chase e’en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.

Say not the Struggle nought Availeth By Arthur Hugh Clough.
by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 • Background This is the second of the three hortatory poems I'm posting.

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