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BIBSY SOENHARJO


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Bibsy Soenharjo was born in Jakarta on 22 November 1928. Bibsy and hersiblings were homeschooled and each was encouraged to pursue their owninterests. She had a particular fondness for literature and, after returning home

from a four-year stay in Japan, Bibsy began writing her first prose in 1957, andthen poetry in the 60s. The Literary Review, an international quarterlypublished by Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA, published herfirst four literary pieces in their Autumn and Spring Editions in 1967 and 1968respectively. In 1967 also, her poem, Jakarta, March 1967 was published in

the Australian magazine Hemisphere, while Setelah Gerhana Bulan (Afterthe Eclipse of the Moon) was published in Gelanggang, an Indonesian culturalmagazine now defunct.

Her poems have appeared in bilingual anthologies, with herIndonesian works translated into English, Dutch and Japanese and her English

poems into Indonesian and Dutch. She continued to write prose pieces inIndonesian that appeared in Jakarta dailies under the pen name Nuspati.Bibsy Soenharjo now lives in Jakarta with the youngest of her three

sons, Haryo, his wife Sutji and their children.


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Idioms Uncovered

Scales fall from your eyes

Eyes are bigger than ones stomach

To keep ones eyes skinned / peeled


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Idioms Uncovered

Scales fall from your eyesWhen the scales fall from your eyes, you suddenly realise the

truth about something

Eyes are bigger than ones stomach

When someones eyes are bigger than their stomach, they are

greedy and take on more than they can consume or manage

To keep ones eyes skinned / peeled

To keep ones eyes skinned means to remain alert.


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Lets watch a movie on He had Such Quiet Eyes



SYNOPSIS

The poem is about a persona, a lady who fell for thewrong man. She was fascinated with his quiet eyes and

believed that his eyes showed his true emotion andfeelings for her. The mans eyes had the power to charm

her and made her believe him and be nice to him.However, the man was actually a pleasure seeking

man, a flirt. As the lady was truly fascinated and charmed

by the man, she did not listen or did not want to listen toany advice concerning the mans true behaviour. In the

end, she realized her error and was broken hearted.



BINGO :

HE HAD SUCH QUIET

EYESby Bibsy Soenharjo


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Teaching vocabulary

using BINGO

Prepare the BINGO cards in advance.

Give each student a BINGO card with differentcombinations of words found in the poem.

Prepare strips with meanings of the rhyming wordsof this poem in advance

Set rules for this game, for e.g. Lets play DiagonalLine (or vertical / horizontal line ). Students mustwait for the teacher to draw a Meaning Strip from abag/envelope / box.


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Read out the phrase /word /sentence loudly.

Get students to look for the one word which has the samemeaning as the Meaning Strips drawn. Strike out the word.

Repeat Step 5 until there is a student who strikes all threewords diagonally. The student must shout BINGO! andhe/ she wins.

Continue pulling out the remaining strips until all the ninewords are struck out to play FULL HOUSE. The firststudent to strike out all the words on the card and shouts BINGO! first, will win.


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What are some interesting elements of thispoem?


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SymbolismQuiet eyes the eyes are the window to the

soul but quiet eyes = deceive, hiding,

untruthful

Thinnest ice

Heartless, potential danger, if one steps on itone may drown


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Rhyme Scheme

Regular pattern of rhyme between lineswith a-a-a-a consistent throughout thepoem, making it rather song-like

Metaphor


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Metaphor

A metaphor is an analogy between two objects or ideas,

conveyed by the use of a word instead of another.Eyes that are two pools of lies which arelayered with thinnest ice

Think!!!!

a pool of blood ?

Pool area of water ( fluid, liquid and not solid )

walking on thin ice ?

Youll never be losing at dicegamble? A game of chance?


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Message

To give advice to young girlsNot to judge a book by its cover

It is still not late if scales fall from your

eyes

Distrust and caution are the parents ofsecurity ( Benjamin Franklin).


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Tone

Advising?

Morally instructive?

Mellow?Didactic?


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Themes

Be prepared to face the ugliness of the

real world

Do not be taken in easily by sweet words (especially from the opposite gender )

Dont be fooled by appearance

Looks can be deceiving



Have a nice time teaching the new Literature component!

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