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Learn about Count and Noncount Nouns

Date: May 09 2012

Themes: Hobbies, School

Grammar: Count and Noncount Nouns

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Even though some of the most beautiful things ever written in the English language were written as poetry, it’s hard to find many Americans today who frequently read poetry. Maybe it reminds them of a hated high school English teacher, or they think they just aren’t deep enough to understand it. Maybe poetry seems boring, stuffy, or old fashioned to them. Yet great poetry, if given the chance, can be as exciting to read as a great song is to listen to. Hear Jason and Amy’s thoughts about reading poetry.

纵然有许多伟大的诗人用英语诗歌描写某些最美好的事物,但今天的美国人中又有多少人时常品读诗歌?也许诗歌会让人们想起不受欢迎的高中英语老师,或者人们认为自己的情商和智商还不足以理解其中的意境。也许人们认为诗歌无聊、沉闷或者早已过时。但如有机会品读伟大的诗歌,会像听名曲一样令人耳目一新。请听詹森和艾米对品读诗歌的见解。

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Amy

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Amy:  Do you read poetry, Jason?

Jason:  No. I read so much poetry as an English major in college that I just haven’t developed an appetite for it yet.

Amy:  That’s funny, because I was an English major, but I somehow got away with hardly reading any poetry at all.

Jason:  What? Really?

Amy:  I mean, I took a couple classes, but I was always reading more novels and stories. I’ve always been a little afraid of poetry.

Jason:  What’s scary about it?

Amy:  Well, it just seems like you might not get it, you know?

Jason:  Yeah.

Amy:  But lately I’ve been reading more, and I’m so into it. I love poetry.

Jason:  What’s your favorite?

Amy:  Well, I’ve been reading some contemporary stuff, but then I’ve also been reading a lot of Emily Dickinson.

Jason:  Oh, I was going to say, if you’re worried about not understanding the poetry, you could just read poetry that nobody understands, like Emily Dickinson.

Amy:  Yeah. I mean, a really good poem is great because you can kind of partly understand it, or different people can understand it in different ways. You know, there isn’t one right answer.

 

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Amy asks Jason if he likes to read poetry. Jason says that he read so much poetry in college, he isn’t interested in reading it now. Amy was an English major in college like Jason, but she did not read a lot of poetry. Recently, she has become more interested in poetry.

Amy says that she used to be scared of poetry. She worried that she wouldn’t understand it or would interpret it incorrectly. But now she realizes that poetry can mean different things to different people. There is more than one “right answer” when it comes to poetry.

Do you like reading poetry? Describe your favorite poem.

 

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ola33

ola33

Japan

Very nice topic to broaden your horizon and find a new niche for the soul. I covered as well poetry at the University, but wasn’t that much impressed. Maybe because I was too young and didn’t get much of the meaning. But now, after reading some, I got a new perspective on the poetic language. Well, I can’t say that I lived totally without poetry, but wasn’t that much into. And of course, my fav. poets are Dementiev, Pushkin, Yesenin..


Today, I came across another great masterpiece and I really liked it. It’s about adjectives and nouns given some human characteristics – personification and with this a great feeling as love is addressed in the poem. Some poems really have a very strong message and I think a healing power :)


 


Permanently

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

Each Sentence says one thing - for example,

“Although it was a dark rainy day when the Adjective walked by,
I shall remember the pure and sweet expression on her face
until the day I perish from the green, effective earth.”

Or, “Will you please close the window, Andrew?”

Or, for example, “Thank you, the pink pot of flowers on
the window sill has changed color recently to a light
yellow, due to the heat from the boiler factory which
exists nearby.”



In the springtime the Sentences and the Nouns lay silently on the grass.
A lonely Conjunction here and there would call, “And! But!”
But the Adjective did not emerge.

As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat -
You have enchanted me with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destruction of language.


I agree with Amy that there isn’t one meaning in a great poem. So, the title Permamently I think conveys the meaning of Love, or Spring that goes year by year. Who knows..


 


 

04:54 PM May 09 2012 |

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Lesya, I gotta hit the sack, it’s late here, catch ya later my dear, bye!! :))

04:48 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Wow that’s great dear, you are such a poet too :)) , I think I’ve started since I fell inlove with a boy on high school, :D

04:46 PM May 09 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

My first poem has been written in 1990. It was a short poem for children. 

04:44 PM May 09 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

I have got my own site as well with lots of poems in Russian Wink

04:43 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Do you mean that just now poem? as you see it was on 2011, I remember I’ve posted at ebaby also :)) , but if you were asking about my first poem then I’ve already forgotten, I have my own site about all my poems but they are on my language not English :)

04:40 PM May 09 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Criz, when have been written your first poem?

04:27 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Ahaha, probably Dear, I have fictional character lol

04:24 PM May 09 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Criz,  are you  like Luke Skywalker ? ( joking)Laughing

04:21 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Thank you dear Lesya, yups..that’s my own, sky walker is me LOL another way of saying that I am a dreamer :D

04:10 PM May 09 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Dear Criz, thank you very much for the sharing this meaningful poem. :)


The most important thing is this poem is your own ;)

04:07 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

You know why I said Flying mind? It’s because I don’t want anyone to bother me. Nobody can reached it or even try to destroy it Laughing

04:03 PM May 09 2012 |

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Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

Nice topic wewwwww….
I’m into poem, though I feel really selfish that I don’t really like to read others poem. I used to write  my own poems, but now my mind is blank just to write a line of nice words. When I was in high school I loved to write poem in my language, I can say I loved it more than other subjects. I guess I have strong emotional to put into words. It’s kinda imagination and my loneliness drove me into it LOL, Unlikely now, I didn’t hangout with people that much, so my friends at that time were paper and pen, not even hangout with internet yet. I think I can understand poem and sometimes give perception about it, I guess everyone has their own thinking about the meaning of poem. This I share one of my poems and I think my old friends here have surely read it,  I know there are many grammatically mistakes hehehe , That was just my feeling at the moment. I expressed my deeply  soul in to it. :D :D :D



I live my dream 



I dream, I live my dream… 

Listen to my heart whispering… 

I dream, I live my dream… 

Plucking my strings and start singing…. 


I dream to be happy with everything… 

Anything I’ve done through the time passing… 


I dream, I live my dream… 


I hold a map, ready for travelling… 


Now you see I got nothing… 


But I’ll be coming and be something… 



I dream, I live my dream… 


Finding myself in sense of feeling… 


Begin to climb and keep moving… 


I dream of anything… 


That never crossed in your mind thinking… 


I dream of the freedom… 


I keep it tight holding… 


I dream of my future and success ending…. 


I dream, I live my dream… 


Keeping spirit in flying mind… 




Sky Walker in gloomy evening, 23/10/2011

03:56 PM May 09 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Dearest, Irene  how is a DAY of Victory  going on? ;)


Agree with your comment about poetry that has been written  by yourself.  Poems require the splash of emotions like love, sadness, disappointment, hope etc. When we are on the top of emotions the poems we write are sensitive and attractive Smile

03:51 PM May 09 2012 |

Orchestra

Orchestra

Russian Federation

Snoopyboy,


You’re right in a way. But I guess, as they eventually died, I see it ending  with”together against all odds! no matter, alive or dead!” So, this one’s a bit different from others, perhaps))


But at all, sure, I’d agree, this kind of stories are rather  predictable)

03:33 PM May 09 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Alright, Orchestra


 then they end with ” be my love ..until death do us part”


;)

03:00 PM May 09 2012 |

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Orchestra

Orchestra

Russian Federation

snoopyboy, hmm.. how about Romeo and Juliet?)) IMHO, there’s no such a typical ending ;)

02:43 PM May 09 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Robaessam,


sorry ,but don’t all romantic poems start with ” come live with me”


and end with ” be my love”?


Wink

02:32 PM May 09 2012 |

CatcheR

CatcheR

Iceland

Snoop, yes hhhhhhhhhh cath her lol

02:29 PM May 09 2012 |

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robaessam

Egypt

when i studied poetry in college , firstly i found it hard to get. But with practice ,and the more you read poems, the easier you will find it.


i love old poetry,especially the pastoral romantic poems like;”come live with me and be my love”

02:23 PM May 09 2012 |

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