Poem - The Kite
All of us like to fly kites. Have you ever tried to fly one? Read this poem about a kite as it flies in the sky.
How bright on the blue Is a kite when it’s new!
With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
As over tides
Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls.
When string goes slack
You wind it back
And run until
A new breeze blows
And its wings fill
And up it goes!
How bright on the blue Is a kite when it’s new!
But a raggeder thing
You never will see
When it flaps on a string
In the top of a tree.
$\quad$ HARRY BEHN
WORKING WITH THE POEM
1. List out the action words in the poem.
dive, dip, snaps, ——————, ——————, ——————
——————, ——————, ——————
Find out the meanings of these words.
2. Read these lines from the poem:
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like ________________________
He eats like ________________________
She sings like ________________________
It shines like ________________________
It flies like ________________________
3. Try to make a kite with your friends. Collect the things required such as colour paper/newspaper, thread, glue, a thin stick that can be bent. After making the kite see if you can fly it.
