Read the following

quotation and answer the

question:

All good things must

come to an end.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Q: Do you agree or
disagree with this
quotation? Why?
Sketch of the Poem
Draw a sketch of the poem:
*What you understood
*Things you liked in the poem
*The message you received

Please feel free to draw anything related

to the poem!
Look at the images and answer the
questions:
Q1: What do these
images refer to?

Q2: How are they

related to the
quotation?
Literary Elements
Speaker
Setting
Theme(s)
Tone
Mood
Poetic Devices
Rhyme scheme
Imagery
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Allusion
Paradox
Repetition
Symbol
Natures first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Read the poem again and answer the
following questions:
Q1: How does the
length of the poem
contribute to the
meaning?
Q2: What does the
speaker mean when
he says So Eden
sank to grief in line
6?
Q3: How does the
speaker create
shift in the poem?
Q4: How does word
choice (subside, go
down etc.) affect the
poem?
Q5: What do you
think is the message
the speaker wants to
give to the readers?
Q6: After reading the
poem, have you
changed your ideas
about the quotation
All good things
must come to an
end? If so, how?