THE MONTHS
ခုလိုသင်တန်းတွေ၊ ကျူရှင်တွေပိတ်ထားတဲ့အချိန်၊ ဒီနှစ်တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းတက်မယ့် မောင်ငယ်၊ ညီမငယ်များ အိမ်တွင်းအောင်းနေရတဲ့အချိန်ကလေးမှာ အကျိုးရှိစွာ အသုံးချနိုင်စေရန်ရည်ရွယ်ပြီး တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းအင်္ဂလိပ်ကဗျာလေးများကို စုစည်းဖော်ပြပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။
ဒီကဗျာလေးတွေကို သေသေချာချာ ကျက်မှတ်ထားမယ်ဆိုရင် အနည်းဆုံး (၅)မှတ်ကနေ (၇)မှတ်အထိ သေချာတာကြောင့် ဒီနှစ်မှ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းတက်မယ့်မောင်ငယ်ညီမငယ်လေးများသာမက၊ အင်္ဂလိပ်စာလေ့လာလိုသူများအတွက်ပါ အကျိုးရှိစေမယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ပါတယ်။
မူရင်းဖန်တီးသူများအားလုံးကိုလည်း မောင်ငယ်ညီမငယ်လေးတွေကိုယ်စား ကျေးဇူးအထူးပါနော်။ Credit ပေးပါတယ်။
THE MONTHS
January cold desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.
[Christina Rossetti]
Words & Phrases for Paraphrasing
desolate = alone = neglected = bare = sad = sorrowful = စိတ်ပျက်
wet = watery = rainy = စိုဆွတ်
ranges = series = go = vary = တစ်စီတစ်တန်း
changes = alter = vary = transform = အပြောင်းအလဲ
tune = song = melody = အသံညှိသီချင်းသီ
sunny = bright = fine = happy = နေရောင်သာ
scorched = burn = ခြစ်တောက်ခြောက်သွေ့
lightning = flash of bright light = လျှပ်စစ်မိုးကြိုး
torn = tornado = violent destructive whirlwind = လေဆင်နှာမောင်း
disrobe = undress = ဝတ်ရုံချွတ်ခွာ
keen = eager = clever = ထက်မြက်ထက်သန်သော
bleak = bare and cold = cheerless = အေးစက်စိတ်ပျက်ဖွယ်ရာ
The meaning of the poem
1. January cold desolate;
February dripping wet;
These lines mean that in January, it is cold bare; i.e. there is nothing on the ground and the trees have no leaves and in February, it rains and everything is wet.
2. March wind ranges;
April changes;
These lines mean that in March, the wind blows hard everywhere and in April, the weather changes and becomes good.
3. Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
These lines mean that May is good month because flowers bloom and birds sing.
4. And sunny June
Brings longest day;
These lines mean that in June, the weather is fine as it is sunny and the days are long.
5.In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
These lines mean that in very hot July, clouds are blown about by the storm and lighting can be seen in the sky.
6. August bears corn,
September fruit;
These lines mean that August is the month when the com ripens and in September, the fruits are ready to be picked.
7. In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
These lines mean that in October, the weather changes and becomes bad. It is the time when trees shed their leaves and the earth becomes bare.
8. Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
These lines mean that in very cold November, failing and shooting stars can be seen in the clear sky.
9. And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.
These lines mean that December is a very cold month with long nights.
THE MONTHS
January cold desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.
[Christina Rossetti]
Words & Phrases for Paraphrasing
desolate = alone = neglected = bare = sad = sorrowful = စိတ္ပ်က္
wet = watery = rainy = စုိဆြတ္
ranges = series = go = vary = တစ္စီတစ္တန္း
changes = alter = vary = transform = အေျပာင္းအလဲ
tune = song = melody = အသံၫွိသီခ်င္းသီ
sunny = bright = fine = happy = ေနေရာင္သာ
scorched = burn = ျခစ္ေတာက္ေျခာက္ေသြ႕
lightning = flash of bright light = လွ်ပ္စစ္မိုးႀကိဳး
torn = tornado = violent destructive whirlwind = ေလဆင္ႏွာေမာင္း
disrobe = undress = ၀တ္႐ံုခၽြတ္ခြာ
keen = eager = clever = ထက္ျမက္ထက္သန္ေသာ
bleak = bare and cold = cheerless = ေအးစက္စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္ရာ
The meaning of the poem
1. January cold desolate;
February dripping wet;
These lines mean that in January, it is cold bare; i.e. there is nothing on the ground and the trees have no leaves and in February, it rains and everything is wet.
2. March wind ranges;
April changes;
These lines mean that in March, the wind blows hard everywhere and in April, the weather changes and becomes good.
3. Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
These lines mean that May is good month because flowers bloom and birds sing.
4. And sunny June
Brings longest day;
These lines mean that in June, the weather is fine as it is sunny and the days are long.
5.In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
These lines mean that in very hot July, clouds are blown about by the storm and lighting can be seen in the sky.
6. August bears corn,
September fruit;
These lines mean that August is the month when the com ripens and in September, the fruits are ready to be picked.
7. In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
These lines mean that in October, the weather changes and becomes bad. It is the time when trees shed their leaves and the earth becomes bare.
8. Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
These lines mean that in very cold November, failing and shooting stars can be seen in the clear sky.
9. And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.
These lines mean that December is a very cold month with long nights.
