Teaching & Learning English
A Tale of Tank, Steve, and Dylan The stage was set, the screen was clear, A contest where we conquered fear. The video played, a silly sight: A goose was typing in the daylight. His homework waited, page half-done, Beneath the cheerful, morning sun. Then Steve began, with honk and tone, A gander’s mutter, gasp, … Read more
A preview of Monday’s seminar and questions you might want to think about. For those who didn’t bring the poems home, this is the poem: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and … Read more
MY ELEVATOR ACCIDENT I press the button, Up it goes so slow. Watching numbers light up, From one to eleven they glow. First floor, second floor, Third and then the fourth. Heading to the eleventh, Traveling straight north. Fifth floor, sixth floor, Seventh, eighth, ninth, then ten. Will this elevator Ever reach me then? Finally … Read more
Spring, the grass as green as lime, Colors, flowers, shine in the sun. Children playing in springtime, Season of life, season of fun. Summer, the children leave school, Snacks include ice-cream, fizzy pop, People have fun in the pool. When summer ends, temperature drops. Autumn (or fall as Americans say), Golden leaves let … Read more
Nightingale singing in a tree, Gulls fly over a bright blue sea. Moles and badgers living underground, Apples for the harvest red and round. Eagle flies overhead fast and free, Kitty with a big heart comforts me. Gardens and orchards the plants will grow, In the harsh winter the rough wind blows. Rapids … Read more
Tinkle tinkle little be, How I wonder how you pee. Up above the world you die, Like a pee pee in my pie. Tinkle tinkle little bee, How I wonder where you pee. In the heavens poop you cry, It lands right inside my eye. Tinkle tinkle little bee, How I wonder what … 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
Since three of my classes are studying poetry this unit, I supposed it would be prudent to set up a discussion page where students can share their analyses. First, here is a useful glossary of poetic devices that I put together: Poetic Devices Glossary Below is a list of the poems we are studying (I’ll … Read more