Poem 1

Pre-reading:
Refresher on poetry terms. Checkout the meaning of the following from
reliable books and sites to refresh your ideas on poetry.

Answer:
Lyric Poetry – refers to the broad category of poetry that concerns feelings
and emotions.
Narrative Poetry – form of poetry that tells a story.
Descriptive Poetry – form of poetry that uses detailed words to create
imagery of a person, animal or inanimate object.
Sonnet- fourteen line poem consist of an octave and a sestet. Sonnets
generally use a meter of iambic pentameter and follow a set of rhyme
scheme.
Shakespearean or English - the typical rhyme scheme for English sonnet is
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Petrarchan or Italian - the sonnet employs the Petrarchan rhyme scheme of
ABBA ABBA CDEDCE
Haiku- an unrhymed poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines
of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively.
Elegy- a sad poem usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone
who is dead.
Limerick- a poetic form comprised of one stanza with five lines a rhyme
scheme of AABBA that is usually humorous.
Ballad- a poem that tells a story, usually in four-line stanzas called
quatrains.
Ode- form of lyric poetry, expressing emotion and it’s usually addressed to
someone or something.
Epic- a long narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events
that are significant to the culture of the poet.
Vocabulary at Work:
Magpie- a long tailed crow with boldly marked.
Areca nuts- seed of an areca palm.
Quan- fist
Suit of clothes- traditionally worn by businessmen.
Matchmaker- person who arranges relationships and marriages.

After Reading
Understanding:
1. Do you believe that the daughter is cherished? Defend your answer.

Answer: Yes, I believe that the daughter is still cherished because her
mother only wants what’s best for her so that she gave challenges for a
man who will be her husband.

2. What is the present day equivalent of magpie from the context?

Answer: The magpie of the tailed crow with boldly marked.

3. What culture of the Vietnamese is shown in the poem?

Answer: The culture of Vietnamese shown in the poem is that before

marrying a woman there should be a challenge or something in return to
the parents of the bride, the groom should give all of her bride’s parents
need and want.

4. Comment on the value of challenges of the mother.

Answer: I think there’s nothing wrong with the challenges of the mother
because she is only following their culture and she want what’s best for
her daughter.
 5. How do you feel for the daughter at forty-three?

Answer: I feel pity for her because there is no one who pass the challenge
of her mother. She can’t able to be married at the age she want because
of her mother. Now that she is forty three, I think it’s much old to get
married.

Valuing:
1. What family, economic, education, and social values should be cherished
based on the poem?

Answer: The family, economic, education and social values that should
be cherished in the poem are valuing the importance of having a mother,
she only follows what her mother said and it shows how kind a daughter
is. The next one is economic, we should always remember that we are
equally made by God despite of our economic status. Education is really
important because it cannot be stolen by other people, having education
can help us to have a better future. Lastly, the social values, “no man is
an island” they is no one who can live and survive by herself. We always
need one another to succeed, we should socialize with others and have a
good relationship with them.

2. Does obedience always give optimistic result?

Answer: On my own opinion, obedience doesn’t always give optimistic

result because just like this poem she always follow her mother and as
result, she doesn’t even get married. She is forty three now and not able
to be married.

Sound Device:
1. What sound device is used in the poem?
 Answer: The sound device used in the poem is alliteration because there
are lines that being repeated several times in the poem.

2. Expound on the use of repetition.

Answer: There is a line or part of the poem that being repeated several
times it is repeated when the daughter is asking is she can be married
already

3. Do you appreciate the poem through its sound device? Why or Why not?

Answer: Yes, I appreciate the poem through it’s sound device because it
shows being obedient of the daughter that even she gets older to get
married she always follows what’s her mother wants.

Poetry type:
1. What poetry type is The Cherished Daughter? Support your answer.

Answer: I think the poetry type of The Cherished Daughter is lyric poetry
because is shows feelings and emotions of the mother and daughter. The
feeling that mother have for her daughter.

Poem 2
Pre-reading:
Surf the internet to have an idea of the last war Vietnam had. Share a bit in
class.

Answer: The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and devisive conflict that that
pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam
and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the
ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Vocabulary at Work:
Shrivel- to become dry and wrinkled from heat, cold or old age
Dewdrop- a drop of dew
Partitioned- wall or screen that separates one area from another

While Reading:
There are times when student minds fly away during classroom lessons. Are
those experiences that haunt you as grievous as the one in this poem.

Answer: Yes, those experiences haunt me as grievous as one in this poem

because student’s mind just flew away during classroom lessons if there is
something that is bothering in their mind. They only being that if they have
problems that they are encountering.

After Reading
Understanding:
1. Why is the persona in the poem apologizing? Is it a proper act?

Answer: The persona in the poem is apologizing because though he keep

fighting on his dream sometimes he just felt tired and alone by influence
of other people.

2. What does the second stanza tell about the persona?

Answer: The second stanza describe the persona as a dreamer. He wants

to be a sailor and no matter what happen he just keep on holding to his
dream as much as he can.

3. What does the use of the word ‘but’ at the start of stanza three suggest?
 Answer: The use of the word but in stanza three suggests maybe a
conjunction or to give a negative thought. He stated word that portrays
different challenges and hindrances he experienced on achieving his
dream.

4. What does this (stanza three) tell about the persona?

Answer: The stanza three tell about the persona that even though he
dreamed tightly, there are challenges or people that might pull him down.

Valuing:
1. With the persona’s situation in class, many Filipino classmates might
laugh at this boy or bully him. How would you react in the situation?

Answer: With the persona's situation, if filipinos might bully him, I can
say that filipino students nowadays is disrespectful because in this
situation, they should know first the story behind the persona. Many
filipino student are experiencing this kind of bullying in class. Sadly,
some of us are bragging and pulling our fellow filipino on achieving
there dreams. Let us stop this mindset 'cause it will never be helpful at
all.

2. If you were a foreign teacher in Vietnam, knowing there was war in the
country, what preparation would you do before facing your students?

Answer: If I were be a foreign teacher in Vietnam the prepations that I

will do when there is a war in the country, I think is to be physically,
mentally and spiritually ready to influence my students.

Elements of Poetry:
1. Pick out sound devices in the piece. Tell how each help understand the
poem.
 Answer: The sound device used in this poem is onomatopoeia. It refers
on the creation of words that imitate natural sounds.

2. How effective are the imagery in the piece?

Answer: It is an interesting poem that catch the attention of the readers

and also it touches the reader’s emotions.

3. What are used by the author to touch the readers’ emotions?

Answer: The author used pitiful words that shows sadness and loneliness.
It touches the reader’s emotions because they can know the feelings of
the school boy.

Poetry type:
1. What poetry type is A School Boy’s Apology? Why is it so?

Answer: Narrative poetry is the poetry type used in a poem entitled A

School Boy’s Apology because it tells his experiences in the school. It
can also be lyric poetry because it shows the feelings and emotions of the
school boy.

Poem 3
Pre-reading
Recall your ideas about submarines. You may watch a video of a submarine
while on its voyage to have a background for the poem.

Answer: My idea about submarines is it is about a warship or watercraft

capable of independent operation underwater. It is designed to operate
completely submerged in the sea for long periods, equipped with a periscope
and typically armed with torpedoes or missiles.

Vocabulary at Work
 Odd- shape - An irregular shape doesn't have equal sides or equal angles.
Illusion - a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted
by the senses.
Plastic Horizon- The magnetic attraction of recycling plastics
Void - not valid or legally binding.
Vague - of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.
Rouse - cause to feel angry or excited.

While Reading
Is the ‘someone’ in the poem right about his reminder or opinion?

Answer: I think someone in the poem right about his reminder and opinion
because it is true that there are lots of secrets and darkness under the ocean.

After Reading
Understanding:
1. How critical is it to be a crew of a submarine as shared in the first stanza?

Answer: It is difficult to be a crew of a submarine because there is a

danger in working in a submarine you will able to chase the secrets and
darkness of the ocean.

2. What is meant by chasing after secrets and the darkness of the ocean?

Answer: When working on a submarine we can know and see the secrets
and darkness of the ocean. We can able to know the beauty in the ocean
and also its darkness which I think is all about the struggles that the
crews experience in the submarine and the problems they encountered
underwater.
3. Can a life jacket save life when a submarine has been hit by anything in
the water?

Answer: No, life jacket cannot save life when a submarine has been hit
by anything in the water because life jacket is only used for someone
who is drowning in the ocean to save their lives. It can only save the lives
of the people but not the submarine.

4. How can the persona slice the earth in half along the dotted line? Which is
referred to as the dotted line?

Answer: The persona sliced the earth in a half along the dotted line by
means of he can cross on the way of the dotted line under the water. I
think that the dotted line refers to the surface of the ocean.

4. Why was he trying to slice the equator?

Answer: On my own opinion, he is trying to slice the equator to have a

division on the earth. But suddenly there is someone who try to stopped
his plan to slice the equator.

5. Who probably is this someone?

Answer: I think this someone is one of the person working in a

submarine. He is telling the experiences in the ocean and in the
submarine because being a crew in the submarine is not easy they also
encounters danger in their work.

6. What could happen when he sliced the earth?

Answer: When he sliced the earth I think there will be a division for
every part of the earth. There will be lots of different parts or pieces of
the earth after being sliced.
Valuing:
1. Imagine that he sliced earth. Does the ‘someone’ give a sound reminder?

Answer: Yes, I think this is about a sound reminder for the readers that
there will be a huge problem that we will be facing by the time that he
sliced the earth.

Elements of Poetry:
1. Pick out the figurative language used in the poem. Tell how each adds
beauty to the poem.

Answer: The figurative language used in the poem is personification

because it creates an imaginary being that represents a thing or idea. It
uses words that described something that is not literally doing by
someone, it not shows the literal meaning but if you understand you will
able to know the real meaning of what they said.