This lesson plan is about teaching the poem "To Nature" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to 9th standard students. It aims to create awareness of nature's beauty and glory. The poem sees nature as a gift from God and finds lessons of love, joy and knowledge in it. The plan involves explaining the context of the poem, analyzing themes, discussing vocabulary and poetic devices like alliteration. It concludes with evaluating students' understanding and assigning them a short poem writing task.
3. OBJECTIVES
To create an awareness of the beauty, glory, and grandeur of nature
expressed through the various forms, moods, landscapes, seasonal
rhythms etc.
To read and analyse the theme of the poem
CONTENT OF THE POEM
To Nature, a beautiful and meaningful poem written by an English poet,Literary
Critic, and Philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This poem is about how the
poet treats the nature as an offering for God and tries to find God in nature.
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6. Have you ever seen the unfriendly attitude of humans towards Mother Earth?
What these pictures are about?
What do you feel about this?
Let’s move on….
7. EXPLANATION
Let me introduce the poet…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1772 – 1834
• English poet, Literary critic and Philosopher
• One of the founders of Romantic movement
• Major poems – ‘The Rime of Ancient Mariner’ and
‘Kubla Khan’
• Major prose work – ‘Biographia Literaria’
8. Teacher recites the poem after that teacher asks the learner
to read the poem silently.
Let’s check the vocabulary….
11. Teacher again recites the poem with correct stress
Intonation,rhythm etc.,after that asks questions….
1) What does the phrase ‘all created things’ bring to your mind?
ANS: All living and non-living things on the planet earth.
2) How does the poet look up to nature?
ANS: The poet looks up to nature as a gift of God.
3) In what way can nature teach us lessons of real joy?
ANS: Nature, in itself, is a fountain of knowledge and all
lessons of life can be learnt from it. All things appease
our five senses.
4) What is the offering the poet is going to make?
ANS: The poet offers himself and his poetry to nature.
12. POETIC DEVICE IN THE POEM
ALLITERATION : It is the stylistic device in the in which a number
of words having the same consonant sound occur
close together in a series.
EXAMPLE : “Full father five thy father lies”
PICK OUT THE INSTANCES OF ALLITERATION FROM THIS POEM
Let’s find out
13. ALLITERATIONS IN THIS POEM
a) ‘Lessons of Love’
b) ‘Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity’
c) ‘Closely clings’
d) ‘Wide world’
e) ‘Priest of this poor sacrifice’
14. Makes the learner to read aloud…
RECAPITULATION
After that the teacher summarises the main points of the poem again.
15. EVALUATION
Let me ask some questions…
1) Who is the author of this poem?
2) What is the title of the poem?
3) How does the poet look up to nature?
4) What is the meaning of the word
‘Perplexity’?
ASSIGNMENT
Write a eight lines poem about your favourite topic