Remote Learning Task Sheet

Australian International Academy, Kellyville

Year Level: 10 Subject: Standard English

Title: POETRY: IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER!
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Week 1

Unit of Work: POETRY: IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER!

Task 1: Read the below poem by Pablo Neruda and answer the questions.

Ode to my socks
Pablo Neruda

Maru Mori brought me Nevertheless

a pair I resisted
of socks the sharp temptation
which she knitted herself to save them somewhere
with her sheepherder’s hands, as schoolboys
two socks as soft keep
as rabbits. fireflies,
I slipped my feet as learned men
into them collect
as though into sacred texts,
two I resisted
cases the mad impulse
knitted to put them
with threads of into a golden
twilight cage
and goatskin. and each day give them
Violent socks, birdseed
my feet were and pieces of pink melon.
two fish made Like explorers
of wool, in the jungle who hand
two long sharks over the very rare
sea-blue, shot green deer
through to the spit
by one golden thread, and eat it
two immense blackbirds, with remorse,
two cannons: I stretched out
my feet my feet
were honored and pulled on
in this way the magnificent
by socks
these and then my shoes.
heavenly
socks. The moral
They were of my ode is this:
so handsome beauty is twice
for the first time beauty
my feet seemed to me and what is good is doubly
unacceptable good
like two decrepit when it is a matter of two socks
firemen, firemen made of wool
unworthy in winter.
of that woven
fire,
of those glowing
socks.

What commentary does Pablo’s poem make on the concept of ‘appreciation’

within this poem?
Write your answer here…
Pablo’s poem is showing us that we don’t have to buy something expensive
or make people buy us an expensive give to make us happy. We can give
people gifts that may not be experience but thoughtful and useful like
socks that Maru Mori Knitted for him, it also shows that the man maybe
homeless and wants support and help from people, to buy himself some
basic supplies and food so he could survive. He got that help and support
from Maru Mori and that is also the reason he appreciates the socks gift
that she gave him.

Find one line from the poem that supports your answer.
Write your answer here…
“They were
so handsome
for the first time
my feet seemed to me
unacceptable
 like two decrepit firemen, firemen
unworthy
of that woven
fire, of those glowing
socks.”

Task 2: Read the below poem by Pablo Neruda and answer the questions.

I Like You When You Are Quiet

Pablo Neruda

I like you when you are quiet
because it is as though you are absent,
and you hear me from far away,
and my voice does not touch you.
It looks as though your eyes had flown
away
and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your
mouth.
Like all things are full of my soul
you emerge from the things, full of my
soul.
Dream butterfly, you look like my soul,
and you look like a melancholy word.
Let me also speak to you with your
silence
clear like a lamp, simple like a ring.
You are like the night, quiet and
constellated.
Your silence is of a star, so far away and
solitary.
I like you when you are quiet
because it is as though you are absent.
Distant and painful as if you had died.
A word then, a smile is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.

I like you when you are quiet

and it is as though you are distant.
It is as though you are complaining,
butterfly in lullaby.
And you hear me from far away,
and my voice does not reach you:
Let me fall quiet with your own silence.

What could this poem be about?

Write your answer here…
The poem expresses a deeper meaning in relation to the text and the tittle,
the Author is frustrated at the fact his love, as she is very quiet, doesn’t
 speak to him although he states that he like her when she is quiet or
distracted. He still wants her love, affection, a word or at least a smile from
her. She might be dead as well and Pablo does not want to admit her
passing, therefore he keeps telling her that he loves her silence.

What makes you believe this is so? Find a piece of evidence to support your
ideas.
Write your answer here…
I like you when you are quiet
because it is as though you are absent.
Distant and painful as if you had died.
A word then, a smile is enough. And I am happy, happy that it is not true.

Task 3: Read the below poem by Pablo Neruda and answer the questions.

Poverty
Pablo Neruda
Ah you don't want to, But I don't want
you're scared you to fear it.
of poverty, If through my fault it comes to your
you don't want dwelling,
to go to the market with worn-out shoes if poverty drives away
and come back with the same old dress. your golden shoes,
let it not drive away your laughter which is
My love, we are not fond my life's bread.
as the rich would like us to be, If you can't pay the rent
of misery. We shall extract it like an evil go off to work with a proud step,
tooth and remember, my love, that I am watching
that up to now has bitten the heart of man. you
and together we are the greatest wealth
that was ever gathered upon the earth.
What is Neruda saying about poverty in this poem?
Write your answer here…
This story is about a man that went to heave and is watching over, his love that is living in
poverty and can’t afford to buy nice shoe or a new dress, but she is very hardworking, this
poem also symbolisms that the man is waiting for her to die and meet me because their
love is the greatest wealth on Earth.
What makes you believe that? Find a piece of evidence to support your ideas.
Write your answer here…
If poverty drives away
your golden shoes,
let it not drive away your laughter which is my life's bread.
If you can't pay the rent
go off to work with a proud step,
and remember, my love, that I am watching you
and together we are the greatest wealth
that was ever gathered upon the earth.

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