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Directions: A poetry square is a graphic organizer that analyzes a poem in four categories: Point of View, Connections, Poetic Devices, and Tone. For each poem we analyze in class, please paraphrase the poem and then complete a poetry square.
Point of View: Who is the speaker of the poem? Who is the intended audience? Connection: How does it connect to your life, the outside world, or another text? Poetic Device: Identify three significant poetic devices within the poem. Tone: What mood or feeling does the poem give its audience? Example:
ONIONS; BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
How easily happiness begins by dicing onions. A lump of sweet butter slithers and swirls across the floor of the sauté pan, especially if its errant path crosses a tiny slick of olive oil. Then a tumble of onions.
Step #1: Paraphrase (include 5 important details):_________________________________________________________________
Step 2: Poetry Square Model
Point of View/Audience:
POV/Narrator: Example:
Audience: Example:
Connections: Self/World/Text: Connection Self: Connection World: Connection Text:
Poetic Devices (include line #): PD#1: Example:
PD#2: Example:
PD#3: Example:
Tone Words (include line #): Tone Word #1: Example #1:
Tone Word #2: Example #2:
Tone Word #3: Example #3:
Poem #1: “The Gift” – Li-Young Lee
Step #1: Paraphrase (include 5 important details):_________________________________________________________________
Step 2: Poetry Square Model
Point of View/Audience: POV/Narrator: Example:
Audience: Example:
Connections: Self/World/Text: Connection Self: Connection World: Connection Text:
Poetic Devices: PD#1: Example:
PD#2: Example:
PD#3: Example:
Tone Words: Tone Word #1: Example #1:
Tone Word #2: Example #2:
Tone Word #3: Example #3:
Poem #2: “Lord Randall” – Anonymous
Step #1: Paraphrase (include 5 important details):_________________________________________________________________
Poem #4: “Sonnet 18” – William Shakespeare
Step #1: Paraphrase (include 5 important details):_________________________________________________________________
Step 2: Poetry Square Model
Point of View/Audience: POV/Narrator: Example: Audience: Example:
Connections: Self/World/Text: Connection Self: Connection World: Connection Text:
Poetic Devices:
PD#1: Example:
PD#2: Example:
PD#3: Example:
Tone Words: Tone Word #1: Example #1:
Tone Word #2: Example #2:
Tone Word #3: Example #3:
Poetic Terms
- Consonance: a repetition of consonant sounds in stressed
syllable without repetition of vowel sounds. EX: P eter p icked a p eck of p ickled p eppers.
- Assonance: is the repetition of vowel sounds. EX: s ea s e lls
s ea sh e lls by the s ea shore.
- Alliteration: a repetition of initial consonant sounds in two
or more neighboring words. EX: The s weet s mell of s uccess.
- Metaphor: comparison between two unlike things without
using connective words. EX: “Can I compare thee to a rose?”
- Simile: a comparison between two unlike things by using a
connective word such as like , as , than , or resemble. EX: Her eyes were like stars.
- Onomatopoeia: the use of a word whose sound imitates or
suggests its meaning. EX: The bee went buzz.
- Couplet: a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse;
usually rhymed. EX: I am a poet /And I didn’t know it.
- Refrain: a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines EX:
Row, Row, Row your boat.
- Personification: a kind of metaphor in which a non-human
thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. EX: The eye of the storm looked right at me.
- Hyperbole: overstatement or exaggeration of actions,
emotions, or other qualities. EX: It is so cold I will soon be an icicle.
