Joy of Reading

Joy of Reading is a Class 12 English chapter from the Lapwing textbook for GSEB students. It introduces students to the experience of reading poetry through Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Remembering”, which explores memories of a mother through sounds, scents, and images.
 

The chapter explains how sound, repetition, word choice, Indian cultural references, and imagery create meaning in the poem. It focuses on words such as tune, buzz, ring, sing, and song, along with Ashwin, Puja, Shiuli flowers, scent, and the sky, showing how sensory experiences bring memories of the mother back to the poet.
 

This resource helps students develop Reading Comprehension, Poetry Appreciation, Vocabulary, Interpretation, Observation, Critical Thinking, and Literary Analysis while learning how to read, understand, and appreciate poetry through sound, imagery, repetition, and word selection.