Day 5

Gwen Harwood: Poems Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read the following poems:

Songs of Eve I
To Music
Midwinter Rainbow
The Owl and the Pussycat Baudelaire Rock
The Dead Gums
Water-Music
Last Meeting
‘Can These Bones Live?’
The Speed of Light
Eloisa to Abelard
Abelard to Eloisa
Poet and Peasant
Frog Prince
Emporium
Hyacinth
‘“Wolfgang,” said father Leopold’
In Memoriam Sela Trau
Late Works

Content Summary for Teachers

Songs of Eve I

A series of eleven sketches imagining different aspects of Eve and placing her in different contexts.

To Music

The speaker praises music as an ancient form of connection, undoing the separation of the tower of Babel.

Midwinter Rainbow

The speaker and a friend joke about science and religion, enjoying the...

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