Discuss at least 5 of the following questions about the speech in pairs.
1. What does Frost say in the first paragraph? What is his goal with this speech? (page 23)
2. Why would colleges bar 'all that is poetical'? Name the 2 reasons given in the text. (page 23)
3. What does Frost mean with 'education by poetry'? (page 24)
4. How does 'poetry (provide) the one permissable way of saying one thing and meaning another'? (page 24, bottom of the page)
5. Why should you be 'at home in the metaphor' to make it work? (page 26, paragraph 2)
6. Explain what Frost says about teaching students to think: 'To tell them is to set their feet on the first rung of a ladder the top of which sticks through the sky.'
(page 27, middle of the page)
7. What does Frost mean by the term 'closeness'? (bottom page 28,
continued on page 29)
Lesson duration is: 70 min
