Learning about poem through "To a Daughter Leaving Home"

 

Learning poem could be a great challenge for high school students because they are not familiar with poems and also have kind of stereotype that reading a poem is always boring and meaningless. Yet, this poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is really appropriate to teach students poem and get them interested.

 This poem contains a meaning of being independent from parents by portraying the process of learning how to ride a bicycle. High school students can understand easily the situation of this poem because most of them have the same experience when they were young. This will lead the students to get interest in this poem. Moreover, high school students are on the process of being an adult, so the poem can give the students a good chance to think about leaving their parents later. One more thing that makes this poem appropriate to teach high school students is its language use. It uses easy words so that the students don’t have difficulty in understanding. It also uses many rhetorical expressions and they show characters of poem well.

 As we could see the advantages of it, the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is really suitable to teach the students poem for its messages and language use. It will let them know about the joy of reading a poem.