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“Teach literature to your children, because it can change the coward become the brave” (Umar Bin Khattab Ra) If there is word “literature”, the first thing that come up in my mind is “imagination” , free, and beautiful”. The words automatically come up in my mind because literature that I know always something beautiful which produced from the imagination from the author, and literature is free; free how to interpret the literary work. Similarly, with me, Boulton (1980) defines literature from a functional perspective as the imaginative work that gives us R’s: recreation, recognition, revelation and redemption. Not too different from Boulton, Moody (1987) writes that literature springs from our in born love of telling a story, of arranging words in pleasing patterns, of expressing in words some special aspects of our human experience. Those definitions lean to describe that literature is imaginative, literature is about feeling expression, literature deals with experience. ...

The waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Of course so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go. Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me, so take the lively air, And, lovely, learn by going where to go The shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. By Theodore Roethke Analyze Authorship           The waking was created by Theodore Roethke. He was a te...

The waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow Of course so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go. Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Great Nature has another  thing to do To you and me, so take the lively air, And, lovely, learn by going where to go The shaking keeps  me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. By Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) First stanza ayufi The waking, by  Theodore Roethke, here he told about the waking. The...

Idioms lesson 1 Break the news = memberi tau Cost an arm and a leg = sangat mahal Top dollar = sangat mahal Real floap = kegagalan Give someone the creeps = membuat takut About to = hampir Ge belly up = bangkrut Save the day = mencegah bahaya Let's face it = hadapi kenyataan pahit Sharp as a tack = sangat cerdas Give someone the ax = memecat after all = sesudah itu No point in = tidak ada alasan Made up one's mind = memutuskan Put with up =bertahan Lose one's temper = marah Talk this over = diskusi Dead end job = pkerjaan yang tidak pasti mOhon koreksinya kalau salah ya.....^.^