The Ball Poem
The Trees
1. About the poet
2. Lesson Objective
1. About the Poet
2. Learning Objectives:

List words related to the emotion of loss

Appreciate the theme of the poem
To sensitise the students to the changing landscape of cities, towns and
even villages.
To discuss the effects of deforestation.
3. Previous Knowledge
3. Previous Knowledge
Write down any two big changes that you have noticed in the landscape
of the city, town or village that you live in in recent times.
a. How do you feel when you lose something?
b. How do you console yourself?
4.Answer the following questions
1. Explain the line, “And no one buys a ball back. Money is external”.
2. When we think of losses, we generally think of people or possessions.
Time is considered a very precious commodity.Explain why time can
probably be one of the things people bitterly regret losing/wasting.
4. Answer the following
A 1. How does the poetess describe the growth of the trees inside
the houses?
2. Why does the poetess use the metaphor of newly discharged
patients?
B. Short Answer Type Questions –to be answered
words:
1.
in about 30-40
Express your views on the title of the poem, ‘The Ball Poem’.
2. `He senses first responsibility’—what responsibility is referred
to here?
C. Detailed Answer Type Question- to be answered in about 100 150 words:
1.
Why is it important for everyone to experience loss and to stand
up after it?
2. What feelings do you think, might be experienced, at the loss of
a mobile phone, for a youngster today? Explain how these would
be different from those felt by the boy in the poem.
B. 1. Describe the comparison between boughs and the newly
discharged patients in the last lines of the second stanza.
2.What are the whispers that fill the head of the poet?
3. Why does the poetess use the metaphor of newly discharged
patients?
C 1.What changes can be seen in the moon during the course of the
poem “The Trees”?
2. The poem ‘The Trees’ present a conflict between man and nature.
Describe the struggle of the trees and their victorious march to
their natural habitat—the forest.
5.Concept Map
5. Concept Map