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Govt. High School Gandhi Nagar, Patiala. Poem : Sympathy. Class : 9th. Subject : English. Name of Students: Sukhwinder, Lakhwinder, Kuldeep, Malkeet, Om Parkash, Harpreet, Davinder, Pardeep, Mandeep, Joti. POET : Charles Mackay.
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Govt. High School Gandhi Nagar, Patiala Poem : Sympathy Class : 9th Subject : English Name of Students: Sukhwinder, Lakhwinder, Kuldeep, Malkeet, Om Parkash, Harpreet, Davinder, Pardeep, Mandeep, Joti
POET : Charles Mackay Charles Mackay (1814-89) was a Scottish song-writer. An editor of The Illustrated London News, he published several volumes of verse. His poems were very popular with the reading public and many of these are set to music.
Contents • Objectives • Skills required • Previous knowledge Testing • Gist of the poem • Model Reading • Recapitulation • Queries
Objectives • To enable the students feel the thought and imagination in the poem. • To enable the students to recite the poem rhythmically with proper stress and intonation. • To help them to understand the idea and message of the poem.
Skills Required • Students should have a basic knowledge of rhymes in their mother tongue. • Students should be able to read, write and understand simple sentences of English.
Previous Knowledge Testing • Answer the following questions. • Who helps us in trouble ? • What is greater than money ?
Model Reading I lay in sorrow, deep distressed, My grief a proud man heard; His looks were cold, he gave me gold, But not a Kindly word.
Model Reading My sorrow passed – I paid him back The gold he gave to me ; Then stood erect and spoke my thanks And blessed his charity.
Model Reading I lay in want, and grief, and pain A poor man passed my way, He bound my head, he gave me bread, He watched me night and day.
Model Reading How shall I pay him back again For all he did to me ? Oh, gold is great, but greater far Is heavenly sympathy.
Glossary The teacher will explain meaning of difficult words. GLOSSARYMEANING • Sorrow : sadness • Proud : haughty • Erect : upright • Charity : kindness • Heavenly : belonging to heaven • Sympathy : feeling of compassion
Let Us Answer • How did the proud man help the poet when he was in trouble ? • What did he not give to the poet ? • Did the poet pay him back ? • How did the poor man help the poet ? • Write in your own words the message the poem conveys.
Bibliography • English Main Course Book for class 9th published by Punjab School Education Board • Pictures from Internet