PRE-READING 1. What connotations does the word ‘alone’ have?
2. Are most people content to be alone, or does it depend on the person, the situation, the context, etc.?
3. Take a moment to personally reflect on how you feel about being alone (what you like about being alone and what you dislike about it).
COMPREHENDING AND RESPONDING
1. There are some very positive adjectives used in this poem. Write a list of these adjectives and say what you think their impact on the poem is.
2. Which image from this poem is your favourite and why?
3. What impression of Lawrence’s personality do you get from reading this poem? Give reasons for your answer.
4. What, in your opinion, is the theme of this poem? Explain your answer.
CREATING
1. Write a monologue from the perspective of the moon and what she sees when she looks down upon the earth at night.
2. Write a blog entry exploring the irony that the internet has made teenagers more sociable in the sense that they are always interacting with others on social media, but less sociable in the sense that they are interacting much less with others in person.
3. Write a short story about a character who hates to be alone.
