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Chapter 4: “To be or not to be: that is the question

A. Warmer: Pre-activity
Take a look at the picture of two poets below.
Then, draw a line between the correct fact about each of them to the picture.

1. He is William Shakespeare. 1. He is Chairil Anwar.
2. He was born and raised in Stratford- 2. He was born and raised in Medan,
upon-Avon, Warwickshire. North Sumatra, before moving to
3. He is often called England's national Batavia with his mother in 1940.
poet and the "Bard of Avon". 3. He is a member of the "1945
4. His works, including collaborations, Generation" of writers.
consist of some 39 plays, 154 4. He is estimated to have written 96
sonnets and three long narrative works, including 70 individual poems.
poems. 5. His poems were at times censored by
5. His works are mostly about love and the Japanese, then occupying
life. Indonesia.
6. One of his popular poems is Sonnet 6. Living rebelliously, he wrote
18. extensively, often about death.

In pairs, read the work made by Robert Frost below and answer the questions.
1. It is about whatever happens in life, it ain’t etheral. Things will rotate as it walks.
2. It is a poem.
3. It represent the thought that nothing good and alluring can last forever.
*(student’s answer).

C. Let’s Practice
To gain a better understanding about poem, try to analyse the poem below in pair.
Write down your answer in the following table.

Purpose The poem is intended to convey an idea or emotion of a war. Either a
party wins or loses, the thing is both the parties suffer great loss.

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SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 YOGYAKARTA BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS XI SEMESTER 1