Francis William Bourdillon (22 March 1852 – 13 January 1921) was a British poet and translator best known for his poem “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes.” While the poem speaks about the power of love, the first line “The night has a thousand eyes” fits so nicely with this time lapse view of Cairo, Egypt by night. Anyway, Bourdillon’s poem goes like this:
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying of the sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
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I took these pictures when I was a journalism teacher and yearbook adviser in Rizal High School in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines from 1984 to 1995. Rizal High School was once credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest high school.
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How to use this blog
We will be posting pictures in this blog on a regular basis. As a good way of learning how to write in English, you can write descriptions, narrations, dialogue, expositions, etc based on your thoughts and feelings about these pictures. For a good discussion on how to describe pictures, please read the article “Picture Description” from http://www.ego4u.com/.
Here's how you can use pictures and this blog to teach or learn the English language:
[1] You can compose short essays about any of the pictures we will be posting, e-mail them to us, and we will publish them in this blog. (You can also use the "Comments" form at the bottom portion of this post to send us your essays.)
[2] Other ESL and EFL teachers and students from around the world can then read your essays and give their comments on your grammar, coherence or unity of ideas, style of writing, and areas for improvement.
[3] We will just publish your essays without your name or e-mail address to protect your privacy and prevent spam. You can just give a general description about yourself like nickname, age or school level, gender, country, etc.
As a beginning student of the English language, you can expect to make a lot of mistakes. However through what other ESL and EFL students and teachers say about your writing, you can really learn the English language.
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