Teaching & Learning English
Eggman To Germany BY CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed, And no man claimed the conquest of your land. But gropers both through fields of thought confined We stumble and we do not understand. You only saw your future bigly planned, And we, the tapering paths of our own … Read more
War Girls BY JESSIE POPE There’s the girl who clips your ticket for the train, And the girl who speeds the lift from floor to floor, There’s the girl who does a milk-round in the rain, And the girl who calls for orders at your door. Strong, sensible, and fit, They’re out to show their … Read more
Men Who March Away BY THOMAS HARDY What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, Leaving all that here can win us; What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away? Is it a purblind prank, O think you, Friend … Read more
“Ypres” is a poem by Laurence Binyon(1869-1943), he was a prolific English poet and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose career spanned 50 years. During this time, he authored numerous poetry collections and plays, two historical biographies, and several art history volumes, including books on the works of Asian artists, English … Read more
“The Dead” is a Shakespearean sonnet (consisting of three quatrains and a couplet), which expresses mourning and praise for the lives lost in war through beautiful imagery and contrasts. The poem is divided into two main parts. The first part(two quatrain)depicts the vivid life experiences of the deceased before their passing – joy, sorrow, … Read more
“In Flanders fields”is a poem by John Mccrae (1872-1981) Born in Guelph, Ontario, a Canadian poet, soldier, and physician, this poem is written in a perspective of dead peoples, and also have the poppies, which symbols death, at the field and restate it in the end of the poem, connecting the whole poem together. The … Read more
The Dead BY RUPERT BROOKE These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given them kindness. Dawn was theirs, And sunset, and the colours of the earth. These had seen movement, and heard music; known Slumber and waking; loved; gone proudly friended; Felt the … Read more
The Soldier BY RUPERT BROOKE If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to … Read more
Today, I want to share a very good website called “Litcharts”, it’s a very useful website for understanding poems and text because many of the famous poems and English literature are been summarized and are better to understand, it also had full analysis for you to reference, have a better path on poem analysis! … Read more
Peace BY RUPERT BROOKE Now, God be thanked who has matched us with his hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping! With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary; Leave the sick hearts that … Read more
On Receiving News of the War BY ISAAC ROSENBERG Snow is a strange white word; No ice or frost Have asked of bud or bird For Winter’s cost. Yet ice and frost and snow From earth to sky This Summer land doth know, No man knows why. In all men’s hearts it is. Some spirit … Read more
My great great grandfather was born in the Qing dynasty, at that time, China is still a society ruled by the emperor, that means they still have a king to rule the kingdom, and good ones will have many rewards and jobs, my grandfather’s grandfather is a big warrior that save the country, he kills … Read more