Welcome to my webpage about different topics that I have covered and learnt about in English so far this year.
Some of these topics include:
I want to include the information about the song 'Brother' by the group 'Smashproof', to showcase NZ artists and their song writing skills, that we covered in class.
As stated in the Wikipedia site about the song, "Brother" is a single by New Zealand hip hop group Smashproof, released in early 2009. The song features Gin Wigmore. It was made as a metaphor to life in South Auckland. The song debuted in New Zealand at number twenty-three on 26 January 2009, rising to number one in its fifth week, where it stayed on the RIANZ Top 40 for eleven weeks, finally being knocked off the top spot by Eminem's "We Made You". It also had minor notoriety in Germany, reaching number 81 on their national chart.
The following is a link to a YouTube clip about the different Parts of Speech.
I want to include Parts of Speech, because we use these, in all aspects of English writing.
I want to include Famous Lines of Poetry because we are studying poetry in class at the moment.
It was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about his (probably purely platonic) friendship with Arthur Henry Hallam, who had died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage. The poem, entitled In Memoriam A.H.H., took Tennyson seventeen years to write, revealing how deeply his friend’s death had affected him. Unlike a funeral elegy to a particular person, however, it reflects on bigger concepts, such as the cruelty of nature and death. The poem also raises questions about the clash between traditional Biblical beliefs and the theories of contemporary scientists about evolution (it was published just before Darwin unveiled his theory of the origin of species); the poem’s other famous line is “Nature, red in tooth and claw”, which suggests the idea that nature may not be governed by divine intervention.