The poem celebrates Queen Victoria on the anniversary of her recovery from a serious illness. It describes the widespread joy and relief felt by the British people at the news that the Queen would survive. The poet praises the Queen's loyalty to her people and role as a symbol of stability and unity for the British Empire during turbulent times.

1. Second Poem
TP-CASTT Nº 2
Title: I think this poem is about the loyalty to the Queen, her role and power over the people
Paraphrase: Students have to write a summary of the poem “To the Queen” following the tips how to summarize.
Connotation: The previous class, students saw some of the poetic devices like alliteration, metaphor or repetition, etc.
Now, the students will identify some of these poetic devices from the poem “To the Queen”.
For example: Repetition
And wordy trucklings to the transient hour,
And fierce or careless looseners of the faith,
And Softness breeding scorn of simple life…
Attitude: The poet is showing us, how he admires the Queen and her importance.
Shifts: There are no stanzas, it has free verses. The poem is in 3rd person omniscient.
Title: “To the Queen” is not just a poem for the queen; it has a more significance sense. It talks about feelings which the
poet expresses to her.
Theme: How you admire someone, because of her actions and feelings. It’s about your point of view of people.
Objectives:
To understand a poem
Pre-reading
Activity 1
Predicting: What can you imagine about a Queen? Do you know anyone? How can you describe her?
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2. While-reading
Activity 2
Students will have to read the poem
To The Queen
O loyal to the royal in thyself, Not for itself, but through thy living love
And loyal to thy land, as this to thee-- For one to whom I made it o'er his grave
Bear witness, that rememberable day, Sacred, accept this old imperfect tale,
When, pale as yet, and fever-worn, the Prince New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul,
Who scarce had plucked his flickering life again Ideal manhood closed in real man,
From halfway down the shadow of the grave, Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost,
Past with thee through thy people and their love, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak,
And London rolled one tide of joy through all And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him
Her trebled millions, and loud leagues of man Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's, one
And welcome! witness, too, the silent cry, Touched by the adulterous finger of a time
The prayer of many a race and creed, and clime-- That hovered between war and wantonness,
Thunderless lightnings striking under sea And crownings and dethronements: take withal
From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm, Thy poet's blessing, and his trust that Heaven
And that true North, whereof we lately heard Will blow the tempest in the distance back
A strain to shame us 'keep you to yourselves; From thine and ours: for some are sacred, who mark,
So loyal is too costly! friends--your love Or wisely or unwisely, signs of storm,
Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go.' Waverings of every vane with every wind,
Is this the tone of empire? here the faith And wordy trucklings to the transient hour,
That made us rulers? this, indeed, her voice And fierce or careless looseners of the faith,
And meaning, whom the roar of Hougoumont And Softness breeding scorn of simple life,
Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven? Or Cowardice, the child of lust for gold,
What shock has fooled her since, that she should speak Or Labour, with a groan and not a voice,
So feebly? wealthier--wealthier--hour by hour! Or Art with poisonous honey stolen from France,
The voice of Britain, or a sinking land, And that which knows, but careful for itself,
Some third-rate isle half-lost among her seas? And that which knows not, ruling that which knows
THERE rang her voice, when the full city pealed To its own harm: the goal of this great world
Thee and thy Prince! The loyal to their crown Lies beyond sight: yet--if our slowly-grown
Are loyal to their own far sons, who love And crowned Republic's crowning common-sense,
Our ocean-empire with her boundless homes That saved her many times, not fail--their fears
For ever-broadening England, and her throne Are morning shadows huger than the shapes
In our vast Orient, and one isle, one isle, That cast them, not those gloomier which forego
That knows not her own greatness: if she knows The darkness of that battle in the West,
And dreads it we are fallen. --But thou, my Queen, Where all of high and holy dies away.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

3. Activity 3
Complete the next crossword.
5
6 S C A R C E
2 4 H
8 T H E E 7 G R O A N
R L M
9 H A R M O E
N O
10 S T R E A M S
1 I
11 F I E R C E 3
L N P
I 12 T H I N E
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Across Down
6 Insufficient for the demand. 1 Make or cause to make a sudden quick
movement.
7 Make a deep inarticulate sound 2 Lasting only for a short time.
conveying pain, despair, or pleasure.
8 archaic or dialect form of "you" 3 Ring loudly or in a peal.
9 Physical injury, especially that which is 4 Partial or total darkness.
deliberately inflicted.
10 A small, narrow river. 5 a feeling of humiliation or distress caused by
the consciousness of wrong or foolish
behavior.
11 Violent or aggressive; ferocious.
12 archaic form of yours
13 Take hold of (something) and quickly
remove it from its place.

4. Activity 4
Word Work: Students create a chart which they will write words or phrases from the poem which they find
intriguing, puzzling or powerful. Then, the class will read the sentences that they wrote and they will try to
give a sense to each sentence. In this way, students will understand the poem through their own words and
ideas.
Activity 5
Each student will have to paraphrase a part of the poem of three verses and then join it in groups of 3. After
paraphrase it, they will have to write it on a cardstock and interchange it with the class when all the cardstock
are already been.
To The Queen
1 loyal to the royal in thyself, 34 Not for itself, but through thy living love
2 And loyal to thy land, as this to thee-- 35 For one to whom I made it o'er his grave
3 Bear witness, that rememberable day, 36 Sacred, accept this old imperfect tale,
4 When, pale as yet, and fever-worn, the Prince 37 New-old, and shadowing Sense at war with Soul,
5 Who scarce had plucked his flickering life again 38 Ideal manhood closed in real man,
6 From halfway down the shadow of the grave, 39 Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost,
7 Past with thee through thy people and their love, 40 Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak,
8 And London rolled one tide of joy through all 41 And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him
9 Her trebled millions, and loud leagues of man 42 Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's, one
10 And welcome! witness, too, the silent cry, 43 Touched by the adulterous finger of a time
11 The prayer of many a race and creed, and clime-- 44 That hovered between war and wantonness,
12 Thunderless lightnings striking under sea 45 And crownings and dethronements: take withal
13 From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm, 46 Thy poet's blessing, and his trust that Heaven
14 And that true North, whereof we lately heard 47 Will blow the tempest in the distance back
15 A strain to shame us 'keep you to yourselves; 48 From thine and ours: for some are sacred, who mark,
16 So loyal is too costly! friends--your love 49 Or wisely or unwisely, signs of storm,
17 Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go.' 50 Waverings of every vane with every wind,
18 Is this the tone of empire? here the faith 51 And wordy trucklings to the transient hour,
19 That made us rulers? this, indeed, her voice 52 And fierce or careless looseners of the faith,
20 And meaning, whom the roar of Hougoumont 53 And Softness breeding scorn of simple life,
21 Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven? 54 Or Cowardice, the child of lust for gold,
22 What shock has fooled her since, that she should speak 55 Or Labour, with a groan and not a voice,
23 So feebly? wealthier--wealthier--hour by hour! 56 Or Art with poisonous honey stolen from France,
24 The voice of Britain, or a sinking land, 57 And that which knows, but careful for itself,
25 Some third-rate isle half-lost among her seas? 58 And that which knows not, ruling that which knows
26 THERE rang her voice, when the full city pealed 59 To its own harm: the goal of this great world
27 Thee and thy Prince! The loyal to their crown 60 Lies beyond sight: yet--if our slowly-grown
28 Are loyal to their own far sons, who love 61 And crowned Republic's crowning common-sense,
29 Our ocean-empire with her boundless homes 62 That saved her many times, not fail--their fears
30 For ever-broadening England, and her throne 63 Are morning shadows huger than the shapes
31 In our vast Orient, and one isle, one isle, 64 That cast them, not those gloomier which forego
32 That knows not her own greatness: if she knows 65 The darkness of that battle in the West,
33 And dreads it we are fallen. --But thou, my Queen, 66 Where all of high and holy dies away.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

5. Post-reading
Activity 6
Students will have to summarize the poem following the next tips to make a summary and the teacher will
show them the next poem and its summary as an example to do it.
First reading: start reading carefully the information as if it were a novel.
2. Try to tell what the poem is about, in a written form.
3. Second Reading: Read again and underlines or takes note of the ideas that seem most important. At the end
of this second reading you should know what the main arguments are and which are of less importance.
4. Describes the text in your own words. In fact this is retelling what is, but this time using the underlined
phrases or notes.
Example:
Lament Summary
L ISTEN , CHILD REN :
Y OUR FATHER IS DEAD .
F ROM HIS OLD C OATS
I’ LL MAKE YOU LITTLE JA CKETS ;
I’ LL MAKE YOU LITTLE T ROUSERS
F ROM HIS OLD PANTS .
T HERE ’ LL BE IN HIS P OCKETS S OMEONE TELLS TO THE CHILDREN THAT TH EIR FATHER IS
T HINGS HE USED TO PUT THERE , DEAD AND SOMEONE WILL MAK E CLOTHES WITH HIS O LD
K EYS AND PENNIES COATS AND TROUSERS FOR THE CHILDREN . I N ITS POC KETS
C OVERED WITH TOBACC O ; THEY WILL HAVE SOME THINGS : D AN WILL HAVE THE
PENNIES AND A NN WILL HAVE THE KEY S . I T TELL S US THAT
D AN SHA LL HAVE THE PE NNIES
LIFE MUST GO ON AND T HE DEAD OF A GOOD M AN IS
T O SAVE IN HIS BANK ;
FORGOTTEN . S OMEONE WILL TAKE CAR E ABOUT THE
A NNE SHALL HAVE THE K EYS
CHILDREN BECAUSE LIF E M UST GO ON .
T O MAKE A P RETTY NOIS E WITH .
L IFE MUST GO ON ,
A ND THE DEAD BE FORGO TTEN ;
L IFE MUST GO ON ,
T HOUGH GOOD MEN DIE ;
A NNE , EAT YOUR BREAKFAST ;
D AN , TAKE YOUR MEDICINE ;
L IFE MUST GO ON ;
I FORGET JU ST WHY .
B Y E DNA S T . V INCENT M ILLA Y