Robert Frost - Two Look At Two

Designed to accompany the Robert Frost poetry anthology for CIE AS English, but will be appropriate for any senior study of the poem “Two Look At Two ".
The lesson first encourages students to recognise and understand how Frost has presented humans’ relationship with the natural world in other poems they have studied previously.
The main part of the lesson then gives key vocabulary that will be useful when analysing the poem, including revising the idea of the locus amoenus. Students listen to a recording of the poem to identify the speaker and situation, and then annotate the poem for technique, with pictures supplied as visual cues for understanding and memory. Students consider how some key ideas are developed using selected quotations.
As a plenary, students demonstrate their knowledge of the poem and the tone used by Frost within it by completing a targeted, scaffolded essay paragraph about how Frost has presented humans’ relationship with the natural world in this poem. Lastly, students link in contextual and critical information about Frost and his poems that might be relevant.
Blank and annotated copies of the poem are also supplied.