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Below is the interpretation of the poem "The Lesson" by one of the readers. Then, answer the questions based on the interpretation! You can give T if the statement is true and you can give F if the statement is false. McGough was born in Liverpool and attended school in the nineteen-forties and fifties during a time when corporal punishment was widely present in British education. 'The Lesson' by McGough is a poem which exaggerates the theme of corporal punishment and is also a parody on people taking the law into their own hands in an environment which we can all relate to. The title, 'The Lesson' is a play on words, the students are attending a lesson and the teacher is about to teach them a lesson they won't forget. The poem is all about how one teacher who is so frustrated by the children's attitude that he decides 'to teach' them 'a lesson', one that they'll never forget. In teaching this "lesson" he is trying to get the children to stop acting so boisterously. The way in which the teacher gets the lesson through to the children is in the form of capital punishment as opposed to corporal punishment. So instead of beating them with a cane he is throttling them with his hands, hacking them down with a sword, and shooting them with a shotgun. The poem sounds as if it is set in a present day English state school where there is little if any discipline, management, or control over the students. McGough never refers to the students as students or children. He always uses negative nouns for them, such as 'hooligans', 'latecomer' , 'vandal', and 'those who skive' . Even though the teacher is acting in an outrageous way and going round killing students, you still feel sympathetic for him because he has to manage a class of unruly, disobedient kids. This is reinforced because the headmaster of the school is on the teacher's side. He 'popped' his head round the door and 'nodded understandingly' and 'tossed in a grenade.' The poem is divided into quatrains where the second and fourth lines rhyme in each stanza. The first two stanzas are at a steady easy pace, but that changes from the third through eighth stanzas. In the third stanza the pace speeds up and becomes more intense as the action and violence starts. McGough achieves this by using verbs that would be found in a war, such as 'throttled', 'hacked' and 'blasted' . In the final two stanzas the pace settles down again, as McGough uses words like 'surveyed' and 'shuffled' both of which are slow actions. The sound of these words is gentler than words like throttled. Roger McGough has been very clever in this poem and uses lots of language tricks which help the poem flow and make for easy reading. An example of this is the pun on 'first come first served' which he changed to 'first come, first severed'. The use of 'deadly aim' to describe the accuracy of the throw of the sword is a double meaning in deadly. Using 'continued with his game' shows that the teacher is having fun doing what he is doing and doesn't care about the lives of the students. In describing the students dying with the simile 'like rubber dinghies when the plug's pulled out', the teacher shows his disregard for the students. When all the students are dying or dead the teacher 'waggled a finger severely' and said 'now let that be a lesson' McGough shows that the poem is still light and is just a joke. In writing this poem, Roger McGough has tackled the question of whether or not corporal punishment should be accepted and used in the school environment. He has made a joke out of the reality and exaggerated it to the point of which it is capital punishment instead of corporal. He has also shown what happens when somebody takes the law into their own hands. He has shown this in an environment that we can all relate to. The rhymes and play on words make the poem enjoyable and fun to read for the audience. Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/17982096/The-Lesson#scribd 10. The poem tries to convey the message that if students are not trying to live discipline, they will live that way until they are adult. ( .... )

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23 Juni 2022 08:53

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Jawaban dari soal ini adalah "False (F)". Perintah dari soal adalah menuliskan apakah pernyataan benar (true) atau salah (false) sesuai dengan interpretasi puisi di atas. Pernyataan yang tersedia adalah, "The poem tries to convey the message that if students are not trying to live discipline, they will live that way until they are adult." (Puisi tersebut mencoba menyampaikan pesan bahwa jika siswa tidak berusaha untuk hidup disiplin, mereka akan hidup seperti itu sampai mereka dewasa.) Untuk menjawab soal, kita lihat kalimat-kalimat berikut: 1. The poem is all about how one teacher who is so frustrated by the children's attitude that he decides 'to teach' them 'a lesson', one that they'll never forget. (Puisi itu adalah tentang bagaimana seorang guru yang begitu frustrasi dengan sikap anak-anak sehingga dia memutuskan untuk 'mengajar' mereka 'sebuah pelajaran', yang tidak akan pernah mereka lupakan.) 2. The poem sounds as if it is set in a present day English state school where there is little if any discipline, management, or control over the students. (Puisi itu terdengar seolah-olah diatur di sekolah negeri Inggris saat ini di mana hanya ada sedikit disiplin, manajemen, atau kontrol atas siswa.) Tidak ada penjelasan yang menjelaskan bahwa siswa yang tidak disiplin akan menjadi terus seperti itu. Puisi hanya menjelaskan bagaimana McGough menyindir hukuman fisik yang ada di sekolah-sekolah Inggris. Maka, pernyataan "Puisi tersebut mencoba menyampaikan pesan bahwa jika siswa tidak berusaha untuk hidup disiplin, mereka akan hidup seperti itu sampai mereka dewasa" salah. Jadi, jawaban yang tepat adalah "False (F)". (salah)


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