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This poem by Tennyson is a classic New Year's poem, filled with good wishes and hopeful pleas. Read the post to find out more about its structure and metre, and you can also do a short vocabulary exercise.
Weโve encountered Walt Whitmanโs poetry on this blog before: in a longish post where I offered some advice on how to interpret poems, I presented his poem To a Stranger. And now I would like to share with you another poem of his, on a similar theme of the need for love and companionship. Walt …
Dear readers, subscribers, and followers of the Grammaticus blog, I have the pleasure of sharing with you a small gift for the upcoming holidays: an ebook containing the unabridged version of the short story The Snow written by one of my favourite authors, Hugh Walpole. Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) Set in the fictional town of Polchester …
This Christmas carol draws on the imagery and symbols that have for centuries been associated with the celebration of Christmas: holly is symbolic of Jesus, whereas ivy represents his mother Mary. The sharp, prickly leaves of holly stand as a reminder of the crown of thorns Jesus was forced to wear; the red berries represent his blood, shed for humanity.
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