Comment on the attitude shown by Taplow towards Crocker-Harris.
Does Frank seem to encourage Taplow’s comments on Shrivelled up?
What do you gather about Crocker-Harris from the play?
Discuss with your partners
Talking about teachers among friends.
The manner you adopt when you talk about a teacher to other teachers.
Reading plays is more interesting than studying science.
A sadist is a person who gets pleasure out of giving pain to others. Given below are some dictionary definitions of certain kinds of persons. Find out the words that fit these descriptions.
A person who considers it very important those things should be correct or genuine e.g. in the use of language or in the arts:
A person who believes that war and violence are wrong and will not fight in a war:
A person who believes that nothing really exists:
A person who is always hopeful and expects the best in all things:
A person who follows generally accepted norms of behaviour:
A person who believes that material possessions are all that matter in life:
Identify the stanza that talks of each of the following.
•Individuality:
•Rationalism:
•Hypocrisy:
What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood?
Which do you think are the most poetic lines? Why?
Questions are based on
•Thematic comprehension
•Reflection on theme
•Poetic sensibility
Notice these expressions in the text.
Infer their meaning from the context.
i) Remove: ii) Kept in: iii) Sadist: iv) Slackers:
v) Got carried away: vi) Shrivelled up: vii) Muck:
viii) Cut:
Global comprehension
Speaking to each other about something that most students do: commenting on their teachers (To teachers — take this in a spirit of good humour)
Reflecting on how we talk about others in their absence
Science and Literature: the dichotomy
Common terms used for people with particular behaviour patterns or beliefs, taking off from the text with the word ‘sadist’.