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The English Teacher is a 1945 novel written by R. K. Narayan.It is a part of a series of novels and collections of short stories set in "Malgudi". The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi Days, (1943) and followed by Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi.
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
The repetition within the poem serves to emphasize the extent of the literal river's beauty. Goodman often uses "my" in his poems not as posssession but to describe something to which he has given himself. In this case, "our lordly Hudson" is an elevated version of "my" and the lonely joy the speaker wishes to share. [7]
Kafka discusses the story in a diary entry from December 19, 1914: Yesterday wrote "The Village Schoolmaster" almost without knowing it, but was afraid to go on writing later than a quarter to two; the fear was well founded, I slept hardly at all, merely suffered through perhaps three short dreams and was then in the office in the condition one would expect.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is the poem recited by "Scottie" the English teacher and father in the NZ TV series "After the Party" The song "Fear" from Current Joys 's 2018 album " A Different Age " references the poem with the lyrics "Starts out gold but never stays".
Brian Jones (10 December 1938 – 25 June 2009) was a British poet.He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge.. Jones' first major collection, Poems (consisting of his first book, The Madman in the Reading Room and thirty-seven other poems), was published in 1966, and proved to be successful.
The Pedagogical Poem (Russian: Педагогическая поэма, romanized: Pedagogičeskaâ poèma, published in English as Road to Life) is widely known throughout the world as the most significant work of the Soviet educator and writer A.S. Makarenko (1888-1939).
The boy in this poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than he is with anything his teacher is trying to teach. In lines 16–20, a child in school is compared to a bird in a cage. [ 3 ] Meaning something that was born to be free and in nature, is instead trapped inside and made to be obedient.