[DOWNLOAD FREE] 32 SELECTED POEMS OF JOHN KEATS [AUDIO AND TEXT]

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Allen Ginsberg and Beat Poets

Claude McKay: If We Must Die (1919)

1. McKay reading "If We Must Die" himself: media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/McKay-Claude_If-We-Must-Die.mp3
2. poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15250
3. english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mustdie.htm
4. public.wsu.edu/~brians/world_civ/worldcivreader/world_civ_reader_2/mckay.html
5. Video discussion of "If We Must Die ": class.coursera.org/modernpoetry-002/lecture/32

Read complete analysis from the above links.

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.

"Lines" by William Carlos Williams

Audio discussion
Audio discussion on "Lines" by Al Filreis & Shawn Walker

Al Filreis is famous for offering this course >> Coursera ModPo

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

Neologism - Dubies: Dubai cities

Dubies is a neologism for more than one city like Dubai, popping up all around the world. It was first used in this article for China's enormous ghost cities.

Web resources for art classrooms

The resource link

Recommended in the Coursera's course Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
by Lisa Mazzola

Poem: A noise of waiting for so long...

WORDS DON'T EXIST  This trickling flesh into
                            Mesmerizing mistakes
                                         In bondage is my soul!

                                         I ventured into Schweinefleisch!
                              Then Rindfleisch!

The shrieks, and battered cries
                                           Came throbbing-knocking in my Herz!
Why? From where? Who does it? And
Why?

Wait, the noise-of-wait, captures
         the drill
   Of  the military robes and the thrushes long for
        the silent breeding they once 'could've!'

'No...the wait...grows, bigger, louder and this
noise is thud shut
into noises, more and more and louder and clear and unending'

The brain shrieks a cry of dark-dugeony-anger.

Colouring the purchased noises of the past
Wanting to buy more but no! Past is past.

No more bidding! Bitte!

Present shudders and walks past future
And I become the Super-dumb, the cult-of-disaster!

Silence breeds like agony aunt forever and forever.
The noise of waiting in me, grows like a bamboo
Ready to be cut and ready to rise up like the or a Tower again

T-T-T-Tomorrow, unceasing smooth-agony, devouring the left
overs in me will rise up again?                                                                            




Left overs of survival like a duck-pose.

Silence 
upon 
silence 
upon 
silence, 





what is this life if silence is to live? WORDS DON'T EXIST

[English Idioms] A day late and a dollar short [American Idiom]

A day late and a dollar short : Too little, too late. So, you are having your breakfast and reading your newspaper, but geez! You missed your bus because you were too busy eating your new poppies, basically you are a day late and a dollar short. Good luck now, you at least know this idiom now. Hope you are never a dollar short and never too late now.

Find the origin of A day late and a dollar short

Just on the side note: the person who answered was paid $5 cash. So, it is a 5 dollar question or answer.

Source: answers.google.com

Four Parts of Speech

A beautiful little picture

What is the meaning of 'receptacle'?

Meaning
Receptacle means a vessel: a pit. Something dug to store, anything. A latrine (loo) uses a vessel to store waste material.

Q: Where is it used?
In the play, The Sea at Dauphin. On the first page.

A quick learning tip:

1. Sounds similar to respectable.
2. Use it in a sentence. A receptacle of respect for others makes you go a long way in life. Use is learning. Therefore, make use of the word somehow to learn.
3. First known use of receptacle: 15th century

Sources:

1. wikipedia.org
2. thefreedictionary.com
3. merriam-webster.com

What does 'volte-face' mean in English language?

I was reminded of Transformers and Voltron (Defender of the Universe). But this is an English idiom which means: a change of 180 or 360 degree in your stance, for example, if you say I believe in religion and then you do a volte-face, and say, I'm going to do a volte-face, I don't believe in religion at all! I'm a non-believer. This will be called a volte-face where you changed your stance entirely.

UsingEnglish.com: volte-face:
"If you do a volte-face on something, you make a sudden and complete change in your stance or position over an issue."

Source:
usingenglish.com