The Boxer (by Emma Payne) The Great iron figure crouches, Scabs like flowers on his knees, And his chest is like a mountain And his legs are thick as a tree. He spits blood like a cherub In a fountain spouting foam, Ringed around by swing ropes And punters going home. Broken- knuckled,… Read More The Boxer: a poem (3)
“The Boxer” is a character study: a young man disappointed with the world leaves home while still a child, and tries not to draw much attention to himself, because he knows he will be accepted or at least ignored if he stays among “strangers” This song is about a melancholy adventure through… Read More The Boxer: analysis (2)
At last I saw it too! I’m talking about “La La Land” the famous American film that has given new life to the musical . This genre is attested since the superb opening sequence, a masterpiece of chorality featuring hundreds of people stuck in traffic on the highway It is a romantic comedy about a jazz… Read More La La Land
I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest When I left my home and my family I was no more than… Read More The Boxer (1)
How being bilingual can help keep your brain in good condition by Steffanie Zazulak March 21, 2017 (PEARSON ENGLISH) Learning and understanding a new language is one of the most challenging things that your brain can do. But as well as the advantage of acquiring another language, it appears that the effort of giving your… Read More How being bilingual can help keep your brain in good condition
Ecco il bel commento su Facebook di un mio caro amico, il giornalista Franco Rizzi: Grazie Luisa per questa bellissima immagine, che mi ha fatto tornare in mente i bellissimi versi di Montale Sotto l’azzurro fitto del cielo qualche uccello di mare se ne va né sosta mai perché tutte le immagini… Read More Free as a bird
Dopo il crepuscolo quando l’ultima luce si spegne e nel cielo si accende una strada di stelle la città diventa un firmamento di finestre
“Louise and Renée” Yesterday I went to Piccolo Teatro Grassi in Milan to see the play “Louise e Renée”. It is a free adaptation from “Memoirs of two young brides” , the only epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, author of “The Human Comedy” The story is about two… Read More A play: “Louise and Renée”
Free as a bird It’s the next best thing to be Free as a bird High, home and dry Like a homing bird I fly As a bird on wings Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to… Read More Free as a bird – The Beatles
Spring Forward : Don’t Forget to Set Your Clocks Timezones are computed by their difference to UTC, the “Universal Time Coordinated”. In Italy there is only a single timezone at UTC+1. Tonight we will have a nationwide clock change from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time and the clocks will be switched forward… Read More Spring Forward : Don’t Forget to Set Your Clocks – ITALY –
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