RITUAL 1 FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING
RITUAL 1 Slow, purposely adequate reading aloud, even in a whisper, will help in forming the sounds of English. Try reading this poem 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. Or this one by Walt Whitman : I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. And the end of Robert Frost 's famous poem: The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Feather: pluma Perch: posarse Assume: asumir, pensar