"Women" a poem by L. Bogan
- 2. NAME : NAYANA THAMBI SUBJECT : ENGLISH REG. NO : 16514371009 COLLEGE : M.A.E.T. TRAINING COLLEGE
- 3. NAME OF THE TEACHER :NAYANA THAMBI SUBJECT : ENGLISH TOPIC : “WOMEN”(POEM) THEME : GENDER ISSUES STANDARD IX
- 4. OBJECTIVES To develop proper outlook on gender issues. To understand the problems of middle aged women. CONTENT ANALYSIS Women an intense poem by Louise Bogan draws the dark picture of how women lead a life of confinement and claustrophobic entrapment in a patriarchal society. TEACHING AIDS Audio-Visual Aids
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- 6. • 1897-1945 • American and Literary critic • Fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of congress. • Editor of the New Yorker magazine • One among the Reactionary Generation poets. • Major Works: Body of this Death, Dark Summer and Sleeping Fury. Louise Bogan
- 8. Can you guess the idea behind the picture comparison? Do you think the life of men and women are the same? Can you point out some of the differences in the life of men and women?
- 9. Teacher recites the poem and asks the students to listen carefully..
- 10. Now the teacher explains the newly introduced words.. Provident Meaning: Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future Wilderness Meaning: uninhabited region
- 11. Benevolence Meaning: Kindness Culvert Meaning: A tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway.
- 12. Whisper Meaning: Speak very softly Door-sill Meaning: Dividing piece of wood in the door way
- 13. Women have no wilderness in them…
- 14. They are provident instead….
- 15. Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts… To eat dusty bread.
- 16. They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass.. They do not hear snow water going down under culvers which is shallow and clear…
- 17. They wait, when they should turn to journeys.. They stiffen, when they should bend…
- 18. They use against themselves that benevolence, To which no man is friend….
- 19. They hear in any whisper that speaks to them A shout and a cry.
- 20. They cannot think of so many crops to a field.. Or of clean wood cleft by an axe…
- 21. Their love is an eager meaninglessness Too tense or too lax…
- 22. As like as not, when they take life over their door-sill They should let it go by…
- 23. Find out the rhyming words in the poem “Women”. Hint: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.
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- 25. ASSIGNMENT Find out the Picture Words in the poem “Women” Hint: Word Picture Definition: Phrases we read or write that we can SEE even WITHOUT ILLUSTRATIONS--they are so vivid. Example: flooding waters, wildest waves, and harshest hurricanes blasted.