On this day in 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize. He won the prize thanks to his negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
Learn more about America's 26th President at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org
Learn more about the Russo-Japanese War at http://www.russojapanesewar.com
Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest poets, was born on this day in 1830. She lived most of her life in seclusion in her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her fame didn't come until after her death in 1886 when her family found several hand-bound albums containing more than 800 of her poems. The first volume of her works was published in 1890 and the last in 1955.
Learn more about Emily Dickison and read some of her poetry at http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155
Read her poems at http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a996
Hope is the thing with feathers (254)
by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
VOCABULARY seclusion - isolement, à l'écart de fame - renommée hand-bound - relié à la main feather - plume gale - vent violent, grand vent sore - irrité to abash - déconcerter, décontenancer crumb - miette
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