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Region III
Division of Nueva Ecija
NUEVA ECIJA HIGH SCHOOL
Burgos Avenue in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
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.
How do you think the speaker of the poem The poet describes the man with the hoe as
feels about the man with a hoe? a pitiful figure.
Why do you think the speaker of the poem He is described as 'Stolid and stunned, a
refers to the man as "a brother to the ox"? brother to the ox'. His labors have been
appropriated to sustain the world's blind
greed.' He related the man to something
nonhuman, an animal.
To sum it up, in the first stanza, the poem
describes the burden and miserable
condition of the laborer because of the
cruelty of his master.
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and
gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens
for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped
the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient
deep? The second stanza is about the purpose of
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf God, Ma’am (Answers may vary)
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!
In the poem, what does God intend him to From the poem is trying to tell us that God
be? originally intented the laborer to be a
powerful human being one with supremacy
and control over the sea and land.
This laborer was meant to live fully and to
search out the mysteries of the stars and the
universe.
The man with the hoe is a "Slave of wheel of The wheel here symbolizes never-ending
labor symbolize?" servitude.
What is meant by the line "What to him are Plato is a classical Greek philosopher and
Plato and the swing of Pleiades?" mathematician. He represents education,
knowledge. And Pleiades is a group of stars
named for the daughter of Atlas in Greek
Mythology, it represents our astronomy. In
conclusion, the laborer does not have a
chance to learn any knowledge neither
philosophy nor astronomy.
Who is being called on in the fourth stanza? The speaker asks question to someone who
calls master, which addressed to the ruler
who has unlimited power.
What does the word 'Future' with a capital It symbolizes hereafter. Life after death
letter symbolize?
What is the message of the stanza? In this stanza, it clearly conveys the anger
tone of the speaker to the masters who
treated farmer inhumanely. The speaker
here also hopes the laborer to rise up and
revolt after being silent for centuries.
In the fifth stanza, the speaker conveys (Answers may vary)
anger tone to the master. He believes that
there will be a judgement day in the future
and when that time comes, the cruel
masters have to be responsible for what
they did to the laborers. (Lower class
people)
D. Generalization:
What is it all about? We learned about the poem “Man with the
Hoe”, Ma’am
Who are the modern “man with the hoe” Ma’am, it is written by Edwin Markham
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!
Presented by:
Joanabel P. Joaquin
Practice Teacher
Checked by:
Ma’am Grace P. Mendoza
Critic Teacher