Your leisure time?
1. What did you do during the last school
holidays?
1. What do you like to do if you have free time?
1. Why do you like to do such activity during
your free time?
Foundation Grid
Setting
: day time
Simile
"like
stars at
night",
Speaker of
the poem :
Poet himself
"stand
beneath the
boughs",
Tone: Gentle
and
encouraging
Imagery:
"stand
beneath the
boughs",
and relates
to nature
Personification: watch
her feet, how they
dance".
"turn at Beauty's glance
Metaphor:
"Streams
full of
stars"
Structure
• The poem is written in couplets of
two lines and there are seven
couplets or stanza. It has a rhyme
scheme, that is, the last word in each
line of each stanza rhymes, for
example "care"/ "stare" and
"glance"/"dance"
Theme
• The theme is about the price of
working too hard and being
burdened with a lot of worries.
The poem is also about the
benefits of relaxing and
appreciating nature.
The lessons are:
a. Take time to relax even though we are
too busy.•
b. Appreciate the wonderful nature.
c. Be grateful to God, the creator of the
beautiful nature.
d. God is Almighty because His creations
are the greatest.
Homework
 Draw the foundation n grid on a
computer page.
That’s all for today