Showing posts with label CULTURE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CULTURE. Show all posts

February 18, 2015

Brazilian writers: Cecília Meireles (poesy)

WHO IS CECÍLIA MEIRELES?

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a poetize, painter, teacher and journalist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Her fist poesy book was published in 1919 when she was just eighteen, the book’s name was “Espectros”. The Wikipedia listed forty works by Cecilia and this is just some of the many jobs that she writes.

Photo by Brasileiríssimos

She is very famous and well respected, and her books were part of my infancy. =) Any grammar book, here in Brazil, had a poem white by her.

I brought a poem by Cecília Meireles for you know and translate the verses into English for you understand better.

February 16, 2015

The Brazilian Carnival

The Carnival is coming and you know what is this festival so famous in Brazil and in world? Let's see a bit of Brazilian Carnival. =)


WHAT'S THE CARNIVAL?

The Carnival is a festival celebrated in Brazil for three days before “Ashes’s Wednesday” (a holyday of Catholic church). In this year, 2015, the festival will be in February, 16. In Portuguese we say “Carnaval”.

A "Rainha de Bateria" in the front of parade in Carnaval of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photo by Camarote Carnaval