If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being liedContinue reading “If : Rudyard Kipling : : School Poems : :”
Author Archives: Jayaraj Vyas
We Real Cool : Gwendolyn Brooks : ( 1 ) : : Narrative Music Video / poetry foundation ( 2 ) : Drew Dir : Ayanna Wood & Jamila Wood Video : : School Poems : :
We Real Cool BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.— Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” from Selected Poems. : : Source: Poetry (1959) :. : Narrative MusicContinue reading “We Real Cool : Gwendolyn Brooks : ( 1 ) : : Narrative Music Video / poetry foundation ( 2 ) : Drew Dir : Ayanna Wood & Jamila Wood Video : : School Poems : :”
Ozymandias : Percy Bysshe Shelley : Sonnet : : School Poems : :
Ozymandias BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI met a traveller from an antique land, 1Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 2Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, 3Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, 4And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 5Tell that its sculptor well those passionsContinue reading “Ozymandias : Percy Bysshe Shelley : Sonnet : : School Poems : :”
Television : Ronald Dahl : :
Roald DahlTelevision The most important thing we’ve learned,So far as children are concerned, 2Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set – 4Or better still, just don’t installThe idiotic thing at all. 6In almost every house we’ve been,We’ve watched them gaping at the screen. 8They loll and slop and lounge about,And stare until theirContinue reading “Television : Ronald Dahl : :”
You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : School Poems : :
You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : “Which of these films was Dirk Bogardenot in? One hundredweight of bauxite 2 makes how much aluminium?how many tales in ‘The Decameron’?” 4 General Studies, the upper sixth, a doddle, a cinchfor anyone with an ounce of common sense 6 or a calculatorwith aContinue reading “You May Turn Over and Begin : Simone Armitage : : School Poems : :”
The School in August : Philip Larkin : : School Poems : :
“The School In August” Written in 1943 , A School Poem , By Philip Larkin is about a School. The School In August : : By Philip Larkin : : The cloakroom pegs are empty now,And locked the classroom door,The hollow desks are lined with dust,And slow across the floorA sunbeam creeps between the chairsTillContinue reading “The School in August : Philip Larkin : : School Poems : :”
Ageing Schoolmaster : Vernon Scannell : ( 1 ) : : Narrative Video ( Poem Reading ) : Vernon Scannell : ( 2 ) : : School Poems : :
https://youtu.be/egSzMzr66_w Ageing Schoolmaster : : By Vernon Scannell : And now another autumn morning finds meWith chalk dust on my sleeve and in my breath,Preoccupied with vague, habitual speculationOn the huge inevitability of death. Not wholly wretched, yet knowing absolutelyThat I shall never reacquaint myself with joy,I sniff the smell of ink and chalk andContinue reading “Ageing Schoolmaster : Vernon Scannell : ( 1 ) : : Narrative Video ( Poem Reading ) : Vernon Scannell : ( 2 ) : : School Poems : :”
Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :
Among School ChildrenBY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To study reading-books and history,To cut and sew, be neat in everythingIn the best modern way—the children’s eyesIn momentary wonder stare uponA sixty-year-old smiling public man. II IContinue reading “Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class : Carol Ann Duffy : : Childhood : :
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayerutters itself. So, a woman will lifther head from the sieve of her hands and stareat the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights, although we are faithless, the truthenters our hearts, that small familiar pain;then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youthin theContinue reading “In Mrs Tilscher’s Class : Carol Ann Duffy : : Childhood : :”
First Day at School : Roger McGough : : Childhood Poems : :
First Day At School : : By Roger MC Gough : : A millionbillionwillion miles from homeWaiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)Why are they all so big, other children?So noisy? So much at home theyMust have been born in uniformLived all their lives in playgroundsSpent the years inventing gamesThat don’t let meContinue reading “First Day at School : Roger McGough : : Childhood Poems : :”
MADHU MALTI 