TWICE A WEEK THE

WINTER THOROUGH
A. E. HOUSMAN

IDENTIFY THE SPORTS

A. E. HOUSMAN
Full name of poet is ALFRED EDWARD
HOUSMAN.
Life period - March 26, 1859 April 30, 1936.
He was a n English classical scholar and
poet.
He is best known for his collection of poems
A Shropshire Lad
His famous works are

Shropshire Lad (1896)

Last poems (1922)
More poems (1936)
Complete poems (1939)

TWICE A WEEK THE WINTER THOROUGH

Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football then was fighting sorrow
For the young man's soul.
Now in Maytime to the wicket
Out I march with bat and pad:
See the son of grief at cricket
Trying to be glad.
Try I will; no harm in trying:
Wonder 'tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
On the bed of earth.
Alfred Edward Housman

POETIC DEVICES
Alliteration is the
repetion of the same or similar
sounds at the beginning of words
such as tongue twisters like She
sells seashells by the
seashore
ALLITERATION:

Rhyming words
are those words with same
ending sounds.
RHYMING WORDS:

VOCABULARY
Glad : feeling pleasure or
happiness
Mirth : amusement, especially
as expressed as laughter

DISCOURSE QUESTION
Write the summary of the poem.

THINGS TO DO
Write about the games that you
engages during your holidays.