Heated Rivalry, Off Campus driving ice hockey boom
By Lily Nothling
Women now outnumber men as attendees to Canberra Brave ice hockey games — thanks in part to a surge in popularity for the sport inspired by the recent shows Heated Rivalry and Off Campus.
🏳️⚧️ Happy Pride !🏳️🌈
📚 Pour célébrer le mois des fiertés, la BDL a mis en valeur des ouvrages LGBTQIA+ de littérature allemande, anglaise et française.
Vous trouverez donc des tables thématiques devant la salle Littératures classiques et étrangères ainsi que devant la salle Littérature française.
Venez découvrir de nouveau.elles auteur.es et peut-être même votre prochain livre de chevet à cette occasion.
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Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice!
‘Spring Storm’ by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th century: a modernist of the imagist kind, he was known for using simple and colloquial language to express his ideas—a feature many critics now consider typical of modern American poetry. This can be contrasted with the modernists such as T. S. Eliot, whose works, to the contrary, resort to complex vocabulary, imagery and symbolism, and which can give off a rather elitist vibe.
William Carlos WilliamsThe poem presented here, ‘Spring Storm’, serves as a good example of imagism: there are no complex, intertextual references or intellectual pretences. Instead, the poet shares an image coming straight from everyday life, one we are all familiar with. Of course, the image is not here for its own sake: it does stand for something.
After you read the poem, reflect on the symbolism of a spring storm and the change of seasons. There’s the literal change from winter to spring; what can it mean as a symbol? What does it mean to you?
The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls as if it would never end. Still the snow keeps its hold on the ground. But water, water from a thousand runnels! It collects swiftly, dappled with black cuts a way for itself through green ice in the gutters. Drop after drop it falls from the withered grass-stems of the overhanging embankment.VOCABULARY EXERCISE
Find the words in the poem with the following meaning:
To check you answers, click here for the answer key.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Free e-books by William Carlos William (via Project Gutenberg)
Image credit: cover photo by Pratik Gupta on Unsplash.
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‘A Prayer in Spring’ by Robert Frost
Looking for some peace and quiet? Robert Frost’s poem ‘A Prayer in Spring’ just might give you some inspiration.
As I often mention in my poetry posts, try to read this poem out loud—it has a great rhythm that you might completely miss out on if you read it silently. And that would be unfortunate, because the rhythm is intentional: it contributes to the message of the poem. Its stable consistency adds to the sense of calm.
How did Frost create this effect? You will notice the steady AABB rhyme pattern, but there’s more. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, which is a five-set series of iambs (an iamb is a metrical unit consisting of two syllables, where the first one is unstressed and the second one stressed).
English language learners can do a simple vocabulary exercise found below the poem, and there’s also a selection of additional resources on Robert Frost and iambic pentameter.
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees. And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the bees is heard, The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill, And off a blossom in mid air stands still. For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil.VOCABULARY EXERCISE FOR ESL LEARNERS
Match the following words found in the poem with their definitions:
ORCHARD (n.) | DILATE (v.) | THRUST (v.) | SWARM (n.) | SANCTIFY (v.) | DART (v.)
To check your answers, please click here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
‘A Prayer in Spring’ read by Robert Frost
Iambic pentameter – an Encyclopedia Britannica entry
‘October’ by Robert Frost
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