SAMACHEER - 9 STD - ENGLISH - POEM - THE FLYING WONDER

2. The Flying Wonder
- Stephen Vincent Benet

4. Stephen Vincent Benet is ranked 324 in
the top 500 poets

5. The Flying Wonder
Said Orville Wright to Wilbur Wright,
"These birds are very trying.
I'm sick of hearing them cheep-cheep
About the fun of flying.
A bird has feathers, it is true.
That much I freely grant.
But must that stop us, W?
"Said Wilbur Wright, "It shan’t ”
And so they built a glider, first,
And then they built another.
There never were two brothers more
Devoted to each other.
They ran a dusty little shop
For bicycle-repairing,
And bought each other soda-pop
And praised each other's daring.
They glided here, they glided there,
They sometimes skinned their noses.

6. For learning how to rule the air
Was not a bed of roses-
But each would murmur, afterward,
While patching up his bro.
"Are we discouraged, W?”
"Of course we are not, 0!"
And finally, at Kitty Hawk
In Nineteen-Three (let's cheer it!),
The first real aeroplane really flew
With Orville there to steer it!
-And kingdoms may forget their kings
And dogs forget their bites,
But not till Man forgets his wings
Will men forget the Wrights.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
Kitty Hawk- name of place in America
W- Wilbur 0- Orville

7. Characters

8. Section -1
Wilbur and Orville Wright agree that just
because a bird has feathers doesn't mean that
man cannot fly and have fun flying like the
birds

9. Section 2
Wilbur and Orville Wright build gliders,
support each other during the development
phases of flying and "praise each other's
daring“ Wilbur and Orville Wright were bicycle
repairmen

10. Section 3
Even the brothers crashed, they went on
to "rule the air" which was a difficult thing to
do and were never discouraged
Orville:"Are we discouraged, W?"
Wilbur:"Of course we are not, O!“

11. Section 4
In 1903, in Kitty Hawk, the "first real airplane really
flew’’. Orville piloted the first flight and the narrator
says that the Wrights will not be forgotten for their first
flight as long as Man remembers his wings.
It was good to have the mechanical skills necessary to
work on bicycles because many of those skills
transfered to working on airplanes.
The authors were proud of the Wright Brothers and in
fact, ask the audience to cheer in the poem.

12. To the lay-person, these are called “tongue-twisters”.
Example:
The first real aeroplane really flew.
The repetitionof the initial
letter or sound in two or
morewords in a line.

13. Pick out the words in alliteration in
the given lines
1.About the fun of flying.
2.And kingdoms may forget their kings
3.They glided here, they glided there
4.They sometimes skinned their noses

14. RHYME
The repetition of sounds
Example: hat, cat, bat, fat,
mat, sat

15. Answer the following questions

16. Project
• Group 1-Pictures of different aeroplanes and paste them in
your scrap book.
• Group 2-Poems of inventions/inventors.
• Group 3-Picture of inventions and the inventors with the
life history.
• Group 4-Prepare a flow chart on inventions/inventors.
• Share your experience and material with other groups.