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Man With The Hoe DLL
Man With The Hoe DLL
I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the 1-hour discussion, the students should be able to:
analyze the poem “The Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham;
share thoughts, feelings and intentions in the material viewed; and
speak out the importance of justice among workers
III. PROCEDURE:
B. Motivation
The teacher will play a video clip about forced labor.
C. Lesson Proper
Why do you think the speaker of the poem refers to The poet describes the man with the hoe as a pitiful
the man as "a brother to the ox"? figure.
To sum it up, in the first stanza, the poem describes This could mean that the unfairness of the laborer
the burden and miserable condition of the laborer has been going on for a long time
because of the cruelty of his master.
He is described as 'Stolid and stunned, a brother to
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave the ox'. His labors have been appropriated to sustain
To have dominion over sea and land; the world's blind greed.' He related the man to
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; something nonhuman, an animal.
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this—
More tongued with censure of the world’s blind
greed—
More filled with signs and portents for the soul—
More fraught with danger to the universe.
What gulfs between him and the seraphim!
What is meant by the line "What to him are Plato and The third stanza is about slaves and their sufferings,
the swing of Pleiades?" Ma’am (Answers may vary)
His betrayed by faceless 'masters, lords and rulers in The wheel here symbolizes never-ending servitude.
all lands' who have "plundered, profaned and
disinherited" from his true heritage.
D. Generalization:
Yes, Ma’am.
Yes, Ma’am.
IV. EVALUATION
V. ASSIGNMENT
Be a poet. On your notebook, make your own 2-stanza free verse poem regarding to what we
have discussed. Be creative!