12 from "Gitanjali"

12

From"Gitanjali"

Lesson Standards

TEKS (7) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to: (B) analyze relationships among characteristics of poetry, including stanzas, line breaks, (B) analyze the effects of sound, form, figurative language, graphics, and dramatic structure in poetry across literary time periods and cultures;

Learning Intention

I can analyze and interpret the poem "12" from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore to understand its themes, symbolism, and poetic devices.

Language Objective

I will be able to discuss and write about the poem using literary terminology, such as metaphor, symbolism, and imagery.

Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Analyze the poem "12" from Gitanjali for its themes and poetic elements.
• Identify and explain the use of literary devices in the poem.

• Interpret the deeper meaning and message of the poem.
• Engage in meaningful discussions about the poem.

Success Criteria

Students will be successful if they can:1. Identify at least three literary devices used in the poem.2. Explain the symbolism and theme of the poem.3. Participate actively in class discussions.

Warm Up

What do you think poetry can reveal about human emotions and experiences? Put your thoughts in the chat!

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali poet, dramatist, novelist, artist, and philosopher. He began writing poetry at a very young age and was the first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913—a year after Gitanjali, a collection of his “profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful” poems, was translated into English. Like the poem excerpted here from Gitanjali, Tagore’s poetry sometimes takes the form of song and is often noted for its lighthearted and uplifting tone.

Vocabulary

• Assurance- confidence inspired by a statement
• Deluge- to overwhelm with a large quantity of something
• Intricate- having a complex pattern, involving many pieces
• Pursue- to try to do or achieve something
• Shrine- a place of worship by association with some sacred thing or person

12 from "Gitanlanji"

• The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
• I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
• It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
• The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
• My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said “Here art thou!”
• My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said “Here art thou!” The question and the cry “Oh, where?” melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance “I am!”

A Summary

Discuss

• What can you infer about the poet’s journey based on the the imagery used in lines two to three?
• How might the poet define “home,” based on details in the text?
• What actions does the traveller have to complete throughout his journey?
• What is the meaning of the word intricate as it is used in the poem?
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word shrine as it is used in “12 (from ‘Gitanjali’).”Write your definition of shrine in the chat, along with those words or phrases from the poem that helped most

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