The document discusses the English poet A.E. Housman and analyzes his poem "Twice a Week the Winter Thorough". It provides background on Housman, noting he was a classical scholar and poet best known for his collection of poems titled "A Shropshire Lad". The poem refers to playing football in the winter and cricket in the spring as a way to distract from sorrow and try to find happiness, recognizing how fragile life is.

1. TWICE A WEEK THE WINTER
THOROUGH
A. E. HOUSEMAN

2. GOOD MORNING CHILDREN
Today we are going to study a beautiful
poem related to sports

3. IDENTIFY THE SPORTS

4. A. E. HOUSMAN

5. A. E. HOUSMAN
26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936
• Full name of poet is ALFRED EDWARD
HOUSMAN.
• an English classical scholar and poet
• best known to the general public for his cycle
of poems A Shropshire Lad.
• His famous poems are
• A Shropshire Lad (1896)
• Last poems (1922)
• More poems (1936)
• Complete poems (1939)

6. 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.
Twice a week the winter thorough

7. seasons

8. WINTER

9. football

10. SPRING

11. cricket

12. Power of a dream