I want the poem because it makes me creative something more than novel. Especially the poem ‘To a Daughter Leaving Home’ is the best poem to teach students, as I think until now. There are some nostalgic words in the poem like two round wheels. The two round wheels means a bicycle. Recently I rode a bicycle again, since graduate a high school. Riding a bicycle is the childhood memory leastways to me. I want to teach the pure childhood even though the high school students are not old.
As referred to earlier, the first reason for teaching this poem is that the poem theme is childhood memory in addition to reminding of their parent’s love. In the poem “When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you” means that parents take care of their children before they protected themselves . This could be the time for thinking their parents’ love and thank them again. When I teach this poem, many students will be reminded of their attitude to mom and dad.
A second reason that I chose this poem is not hard to study. This means Korean students don’t like English poem as like me, so I have to choose the easy poem including word, metaphor, simile. Also, I think that the poem class have to be fun to study with whole class. This poem can have a lot of activities during class. For example, students can make a song or picture using this poem. It would motivate students to study English poetry.
In conclusion, I want to make an enjoyable class with English poem as a language play. The poem ‘To a Daughter Leaving Home’ is the great contents to learn with high school Ss. because they are sick of the English for university admission. Especially, “the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye.” this line describe the beautiful and sad independence for parents and children. It even looks the healthy family membership in these days.
