This lesson plan makes use of several bilingual book editions of Pablo Neruda's poetry, so as to provide the comprehensive overview of his body of work possible. The translation of the poem "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" was taken from Poetry Foundation; the translation of "Ode to My Socks", from poets.org; the translation of "The Dictators", for Poetry Foundation once again.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students' written expression, teachers...