Ambition poem

AMbition


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 only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it

If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!


This poem relates to my topic of Ambition because in the play cassius has lots of ambition to over rule caeser. In the poem it is basically saying that nothing will stop you from what you want and if you will do anything to get what you want then you have alot of ambition. Cassius is trying really hard to get brutus on his side to take over caeser he is trying to get a big group that is on his side. He is using many ways to try to get rid of caeser because he is full of ambition. All he wants to do is get rid of caeser and it seems like nothing is going to stop him from doing that for example he is wanting to kill caeser right now and he keeps coming uop with ideas to carry out his plan. THe poem talks about nothing stoppin you when you have ambition and it seems as if nothing is going to stop cassius. In the poem is says you will plan for it and cassius is deffinitally planning this out.

By: Reich'er