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The following short sonnet, written by the famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874โ1942), is about the transitory nature of autumn. Standing between summer and winter, the month of September is still warm and delightful, but there are telling signs of change in the air...
In this post I am going to share with you a wonderfully simple poem by Joyce Kilmer. Entitled โTreesโ, the poet uses it to express the majestic nature of these living beings, superior even to artistic creation and intelligence of man.
Clareโs short poem โSummer Moodsโ wonderfully captures the sense of enjoyment in a simple nature walk on a summer evening.
In this post, Iโll give a few examples of an unusual feature where a particular Latin verb form (typically that of the 3rd person singular) has been adopted into English as a noun. Most of these nouns are very common and you might not even be aware of their origin!
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