5. INTRODUCTION
• The presentation is prepared for teaching the
poem` The Bat’ in Std VIII.
• In this poem ‘The Bat’ the poet says about the
bat ,which is at once a dear one at day time
and a fearful manner at night .It may thought
that the poet is saying about his own
experience in younger days.
6. AUTHOR
• Theodore Roethke was born in Michigan , U.S.
In 1957, he published a collection of works
that included forty three new poems titled
‘Words For The Wind ’, for which he was
awarded many titles. During the last years of
his life, he had composed sixty one new
poems that were published as ‘The Collected
Poems’ in 1964 which received the National
Book Award in 1966.
7. NEW WORDS
• Attic - a space just below the roof of the house
• Loops - to fly in a circular direction
• Amiss - wrong
