~ Love Actually ~

Due Date- Tuesday, February 14- "Love Actually"-

Love is Everywhere.

Fathers and Sons
Mothers and Daughters
Husbands and Wives
Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Old Friends

If you look for it
You will find that
Love Actually
Is all around

- Hugh Grant in Love Actually

The Valentine's Day assignment always has to be about love. Here's your last chance to pay tribute to someone you love in a homework assignment. Maybe write or find a love poem or story. You can surprise us by writing about a grandparent, an in-law, another relative, a pet... Use your imagination and be creative.

For this Valentine's Day assignment, I decided to share with you two of my favorite love poems by William Butler Yeats. Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer and one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Since Jeff and I have been married for 31 years, I chose one poem that represents young romantic love and a second one that emphasizes enduring love.

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

~ William Butler Yeats ~

When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

~ William Butler Yeats ~