Here is a crossword puzzle with synonyms for the words in the poem: Across 1. Cheerful 6. Happiness 8. Delighted 9. Indicator 10. Sky Down 3. Short 4. Created 7. Magnificent Down and Across 2. God 5. Poem

2. Laugh and Be Merry
The poet, John Masefield suggests
that we should have a positive
attitude in life. Life is short so we
must enjoy the fruits of happiness.
Every moment of our life should be
enjoyed and cheered. The poet
compares the world with an inn
where all human beings are
temporary guests. We should
enjoy life till it lasts and till the
music of life ends.
Introduction:

3. His Famous Works
Poetry collections novels
 Ballads (1903)
 Ballads and Poems (1910)
 The Everlasting Mercy (1911)
 Dauber (1912)
 The Daffodil Fields (1913)
 The Story of a Round House
and Other Poems (1915)
 Sonnets (1916)
 Captain Margaret (1908)
 Multitude and
Solitude (1909)
 Martin Hyde: The Duke's
Messenger (1910)
 Lost Endeavour (1910).
 The Street of Today (1911)
 Jim Davis (Wells Gardner,
1911).

4. GIST OF THE POEM
In this poem, “Laugh and Be Merry” the poet wants us
to be cheerful and enjoy our life to the fullest. He
also reminds us that we are like temporary guests
who stay in a beautiful inn for a while.
“ A good laugh is sunshine in the house”
“The most wasted day in life is the day in which we have
not laughed.”
God created Heaven and Earth . He filled them with joy
and laughter.
One should laugh happily. He should make a better
world. Our life is short, man should be proud to
belong to the mankind.
He wanted us to live with joy. Let us treat others like
brothers.

5. Mind Map

6. Consolidation
• John Masefield calls us to be happy and enjoy
our life with a song.
• We should fight against wrong.
• Life is very short like a thread .
• God made Heaven and Earth
• We enjoy the song with the stars.
• We are the Guests in the earth.
• We stay for a short while and so we should
enjoy our life till it ends.

7. Figures of Speech in Laugh and Be
Merry"
• Rhyming Words in the Poem :
• song - wrong
• span - man
• time - rhyme
• mirth - earth
• sky - by
• outpoured - Lord
• akin - inn
• ends - friends

8. Rhyme Scheme
• A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at
the end of each line of a a poem or song. It is
usually referred to by using letters to indicate
which lines rhyme; lines designated with the
same letter all rhyme with each other.
• Rhyme Scheme of the Poem : aa,bb

9. Alliteration
Series of words that begin with the same
consonant sound.
 Better the world......blow
 World with a .......of a wrong
 Join the jubilant song
 drink from the deep blue

10. Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds.
• Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin,
• Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful
inn,

11. Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have
something important in common.
 Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span
(Life time is compared to a thread)
 So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
(Sky is compared to a deep blue cup)
 Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn,
(Earth is compared to inn and people are compared to guests)
 Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.
(Life is compared to a game)

12. Simile
• A stated comparison (usually formed with
"like" or "as") between two dissimilar things
that have certain qualities in common.
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers
akin, (Human beings are compared to
brothers)

13. PHONETICS TRANSCRIPTION

14. APPRECIATION QUESTIONS
Laugh and be merry; remember , in olden time
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of His
mirth
The splendid joy of the stars : the joy of the earth.
Questions:
 Who made Heaven and Earth?
 Why did He make Heaven and Earth?
 What is meant by “rhyme”?
 How did He fill them?
 What does it mean “splendid”?

15. APPRECIATION QUESTIONS
ANSWERS:
God made Heaven and Earth
He made Heaven and Earth for joy
It means short poem
He filled them with strong wine of His
happiness.
It means very beautiful.

16. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT(a)
• Write a few words and phrases that make you
think of “merry” in this poem:
• Mention TEN things that bring you happiness.
• Paste some pictures that depict HAPPINESS.

17. Formative Assessment (b)
Choose the correct answer:
 The stars _____________ (sign/shine) during night.
 _______ (God/Guard) made Heaven and earth.
 The earth is referred to as a beautiful______
(in/inn)
 We should laugh and ______ (be/bee) happy
always.
 In the ______ green earth (deer/dear)

18. Formative Assessment(b)
* Encircle the adjectives in the following stanza:
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue
cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars
sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the
wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of

19. Formative Assessment(b)
Syllabify the following words:
 laugh
 remember
 blow
 pageant
 heaven
 earth
 splendid
 jubilant
 Lord
 awhile

20. Crossword Puzzle
• FIND THE SYNONYM FOR THE FOLLOWING WORDS
•
1.MERRY 6.MIRTH
2.LORD 7.SPLENDID
3.BRIEF 8.JUBILANT
4.MADE 9.SIGN
5.RHYME 10.HEAVEN
CROSS: 1,2,5,6,8,9,10,
DOWN: 3,4
DOWN&CROSS: 7 )

21. Crossword Puzzle