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 Poem ESL by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Listening to the rhyme and rhythm in
poems here for ESL students trains their ear for hearing little differences in the spoken English
word.
The poem
"The fault, dear Brutus; is not in our stars"
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Poem ESL | Shakespeare's Julius Caesar's poem ""The fault; dear Brutus; is not in our stars""
text, audio and verse-meaning help. ESL students play and listen to the audio and read the poem to build
vocabulary, practice rhyme and experience language rhythm again, and again. English Poetry Free ESL
Listening.
Poetry Reading Study Directions for ESL
Students
Studying poetry requires reading
and listening to it many times.
Each poem is here in two forms. One with helpful hints following the line and one
form with just the poem as it was written by the poet.
Start by playing the poem's audio and reading the first poem with the study
helpful hints about the line's meaning.
ESL students play the audio listen and read the poem first and quickly without stopping to
begin.
Then go back and read again and double click on words you don’t know to understand
to start to understand the poem.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar "The fault, dear
Brutus; is not in our stars"
William Shakespeare 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616 was an English poet and
playwright.
Poet Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Lesson Number:
5153911
Compiled and present here by Richard Dauer -- Online
English.org Audio reading by
Robert Jackson.
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Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar "The fault; dear Brutus; is not in our stars"
William Shakespeare 26 April 1564; died 23 April
1616 was an English poet and playwright.
(Cassius speaks to Brutus about Caesar.)
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When went there by an age, since the great flood,
But it was famed with more than with one man?
When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say,
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king
HELP? ATTENTION STUDENTS
(For help
with understanding the meaning go to page 2 for helpful hins in red and play and read the poem
again.)
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Page 2: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Poem with Meaning Helpful Hints
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Page 3: ESL Vocabulary Building Word
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