By Jacqueline Schaalje The following scenario will probably happen to you or someone near you very soon: the End of the Summer holidays is upon us. We’ll need to go back to school. No, not me. I’ll only go back to teaching at a college in October. What happens if we don’t go to school?… Continue reading Back to School Poems: We Real Cool and The Hand
By Jacqueline Schaalje sammydavisdog I really love my job when I can get people to read. I have more success with this when students already read in their own language. Just recently, I got a Russian gentleman to read poems by William Blake. Although he loves literature and reads Molière for breakfast, he had never… Continue reading The Most Famous Poem in English: The Sick Rose by William Blake
Weathers By Thomas Hardy This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘The Traveller’s Rest,’ And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And… Continue reading Poetry Time – Easy Line-by-Line Explanation of Thomas Hardy’s Weathers
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