Metaphors for resilience to life’s challenges

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Metaphors for resilience to life’s challenges

Greg Judkins
Waves on rockd CR Janosch-Lino on Unsplash
The poem’s narrator seeks to be strong like a rock, as it stands unmoved by the crashing of the waves [Image: Janosch Lino on Unsplash]

Greg Judkins discusses a poem from his schooldays that made a lasting impression, with its themes of resilience and not wanting to be defeated by external forces

A restless sea can be seen as a metaphor for anything that steadily grinds us down I learnt this short poem at school and, although I can still r
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