NEWS February 2019
FEBRUARY, the odd one!
February is a special month. It's the only month that has 28 days!
And every 4 years, we add an extra day... that makes 29 days!
We call it a leap year!
So what is a leap year?
Watch the following video and try to understand:
Did you get it? Tough, hum...?
Just remember February is the shortest month of the year! :-)
K.L
FEBRUARY in POEMS
February is a dull month: it is not very sunny, it is sometimes very cold and the sky is often grey!
That's why a lot of poets are inspired by February. Here are 2 poems that I've chosen and which represent the atmosphere of February.
Which one do you prefer? Do you know any other poem? Could you write one?
The trees stand brown against the gray,
The shivering gray of field and sky;
The mists wrapt round the dying day
The shroud poor days wear as they die:
Poor day, die soon, who lived in vain,
Who could not bring my Love again!
Down in the garden breezes cold
Dead rustling stalks blow chill between;
Only, above the sodden mould,
The wallflower wears his heartless green
As though still reigned the rose-crowned year
And summer and my Love were here.
The mists creep close about the house,
The empty house, all still and chill;
The desolate and trembling boughs
Scratch at the dripping window sill:
Poor day lies drowned in floods of rain,
And ghosts knock at the window pane.
**********
February 21 - Whose Birthday Today?
If you saw the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'
you'd have been moved maybe to tears
by his 'Funeral Blues';
If you were a college poetry student
the day after 9/11
you might have had your poet in residence
read his 'September 1,1939'
and had your breath taken away
by its accidental appropriateness
and the last line, which he wanted to amend,
'We must love each other, or die'
Two poems he himself didn't think quite good enough..
this is posthumous fame beyond the control
of poets;
this is what poetry can leave to the world;
this is what poetry is.
Wystan Hugh Auden would have been 100 today.
Rest In Poetry.
Poem by Michael Shepherd
THE HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY
Commentaires
-
- 1. Ann Le 14/02/2019
Happy Valentine's Day teacher ! May your pupils be sweet Valentines on this particular day !!-
- englishteacher8Le 06/12/2019
Thank you so much! :-) To you too!
Ajouter un commentaire