Week 6 Homework

“To a Daughter Leaving Home” is one of the literatures we learned in our ELT class. Most of the students chose this poem when asked If they have to choose one literature and teach students. According to three students’ blogs, they think that this poem is appropriate for high school students, and they choose this poem for some reasons.

Yenny Hwang indicates that the message of the poem is suitable for students. She says that the poem deals with the subject of a daughter’s independence from her parents. High school students are also passing this time becoming independent person from their parents, so students can understand parent’s mind through reading this poem (2015.09.29).  She also points out that this poem uses easy words and sentence structures. She writes, “To a Daughter Leaving Home uses easier words and sentence structures. Further, this uses a metaphor, it makes us think of the meaning in words and guess the willing of the poet through this poem” (Hwang, 2015.09.29).

According to Jisun Jang, she points out that the theme of the poem is familiar for students. The poem deals with Mother’s love, and this theme is familiar for the most people. Jang thinks that most people, including high school students, have experience in learning bicycle from their parents which is relate to this poem, so it is good for students’ understanding (2015.09.30). Jang also indicates that the poem may be well to understanding for high school students. She writes, “To a daughter leaving home’s composition is simple relatively but also interesting because poet’s time cross past and present and used words are also comparatively easy; wobble, pull away, sprint. Thus students may well understand this poet” (Jang, 2015.09.30).

Mijung Yoon feels that the poem deals with family love, and this topic is an easy topic. She writes, “Students can easily connect their own experiences to the poem. Also, reading about family love would be a break time to students who are sick and tired of hard studying” (Yoon, 2015.09.29). Yoon also points outs that the rhetorical expression of this poem is good. According to Yoon, the title of the poem implicates a present situation that a daugher is going to leave the parents, but the contents of the poem cover a story that the first time (2015.09.29). She writes, “The writer overlaps past and present within a single poem. It is interesting expression for students” (Yoon, 2015.09.29).

In short, three bloggers chose “To a Daughter Leaving Home” for high school students.  Because the poem deals with familiar theme using easy expressions, and the poem has good rhetorical expression.

References:

Hwang, Yenny  (2015.09.29) “week 5 homework” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://yennyhwang.blogspot.kr/.

Jang, Jisun (2015.09.30) “To a Daughter Leaving Home” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://blog.naver.com/ekdzhd1120/.

Yoon, Mijung (2015.09.29) “Let's read the poem / / To a Daughter Leaving Home” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://mimimimijung.blogspot.kr/.