Poetry: TPCASTT

Romantics

Analysis

• Follow along with the poem you have received. Do not move ahead of the group; do not fall behind

• Fill in your individual responses on the sheet provided

Step 1: Title

• Before you start to read the poem, look at the title. Write the title. What, based on the title, do you think the poem might be about? What might be concealed in the title? What is IMPLIED by the title, and what might the connotations be?

Step 2: Paraphrase

• Read the poem (we’ll do this together).

• Paraphrasing means that you, line by line, take the poem apart. What is happening in individual lines?

• Do not summarize. Do not.• Use your words. Don’t use the same

words as the poet.

Step 3: Connotation

• Continue to read the poem. Read it over, one more time.

• Comb the poem for literary devices. Simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism

• Comb the poem for sound devices like alliteration, meter, rhyme, onomatopoeia

Step 4: Attitude

• Focus on diction and tone• Complex; there need to be images

or word choices that make you think this

Step 5: Shifts

• Where does the poem change from one attitude to another?

• Look for key words (but, yet, however, although)

• Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons)

• Stanza divisions, changes in stanza size

Step 6: Title

• Think back on the title now. What might it represent, symbolically?

• Take time to relate it to the body of the poem

Step 7: Theme

• What is the poem saying about the human experience? What is the poem about?

• Consider what the poet might want you to take from the poem

• Expressed IN A SENTENCE

Next Steps: Your Analysis

• Students: log on to poets.org• Go to “advanced search”• In “Movements”, choose “Romantic”• Choose the POET• Choose the POEM• Do the TP-CASTT analysis• Present the poem

Presenting Your Analysis

• Be sure that your poet is British Romantic

• Present your poem’s analysis according to the template

• Rubric WILL INCLUDE thoroughness, presentation skills, interactivity

Present: Poet and Poem

• Give a short biography of the poet• Read the poem slowly, clearly, and

using excellent diction and body language

Present: Thoroughness

• Did you:– Address all parts of the template?– Adequately provide meaning of the

poem?– Connotate using poetic devices and

sound devices? Explain them?– Choose shift words and identify tone

changes? – Choose theme?

Present: Interactivity• Did you think of an activity for your class

to partake in to help them understand the poem? Think gallery walk, illustration, mad libs, anything interactive, group read, spirit read, choral read, post-it hot potato, etc.

• Don’t forget to provide simple step-by-step instructions for everything. Everything.

• Did you do something visual? Kinesthetic? Audio?