Page 5 - BOOK VI Unit 5
P. 5
Using Language
Write a poem
1 Before you read, discuss how to understand a poem with your partner. Make a list
of questions that the readers should consider while reading poems. The following
points may help you.
• Subject • Rhythm and sounds
• Images • Feelings and emotions
• Tone • Rhetorical devices
2 Read the poems below and then complete the table.
WIND ON THE HILL
No one can tell me, It would blow with the wind
Nobody knows, For a day and a night.
Where the wind comes from, And then when I found it,
Where the wind goes. Wherever it blew,
It’s flying from somewhere I should know that the wind
As fast as it can, Had been going there too.
I couldn’t keep up with it, So then I could tell them
Not if I ran. Where the wind goes ...
But if I stopped holding But where the wind comes from
The string of my kite, Nobody knows.
A. A. Milne
DREAM
A MATCH
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die If love were what the rose is,
Life is a broken-winged bird And I were the leaf,
That cannot fly. Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Hold fast to dreams, Brown fields or flowerful closes,
For when dreams go Green pleasure or grey grief;
Life is a barren field If love were what the rose is,
Frozen with snow. And I were like the leaf.
Langston Hughes A. C. Swinburne
56 UNIT 5 POEMS
