A/n- A poem I did for class.

Disclaimer: Hamlet is not mine! Unfortunatly.

Summary: We had to take Hamlet's famious 'To Be' speech and change it. However, the same type of words ( verb verb) and structure (some of the articles and basic two letter words) had to remain the same.


To Fight


To fight or not to fight- that is the pluck:

Whether 'tis easier in the heart to endure

The bite and heat of such daemons,

Or to bolster courage against a scourge of enemies

And, by attacking, kill them. To bend, to surrender-

No more- and by a surrender to suggest one incurs

The spines and the minute boring thistles

That man is slave to- 'tis a demise

Greatly to be shirked. To bend, to surrender-

To surrender, but to live. Ay, there's the difference,

For in one's life of captivity what freedoms may die,

When one has been stripped of his inherent liberties.

This must give us cause. There's the notion

That provokes the fears of many a man.

For what noble slave will allow the lash and ridicule of foes,

Th' enemy's sharp tongue, the destroyed mind's illusions,

The emptiness of murdered love, the Lord's disgrace,

The morality of offence, and the heels

That trod mercilessly on th' unworthy wretches,

When he in turn his rivals make

With sharpened steel? Who would gladly resolve,

To cut and bleed under a warden's chain?

But that the blackness of uncertainty after engagement,

The untold fortune from which

No man relives, impairs the judgment

And makes one rather give to those ills

Than charge to a destiny we know not of.

Thus hesitation does craft slaves (of us all,)

And thus the impulsive character of man

Is (bound) o'er with the stark truth of failure

And coupled with prayer and thought.

With this certainty their actions go awry

And lose the potency of will.


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