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USING A TP CASTTA student guide to poetry analysis

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Title

What is the title?What do you think the title means?What does it suggest this work is about?

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Paraphrase

Put the content of the work in your own words.

Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line

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Connotation

Pick out words with strong emotional attachments—Connotations.

Analyze the words and their connotationsThis will help you identify the attitude

(tone)

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Attitude

What is the overall attitude of the work?◦What textual support do you have?

Look at other sections of the TP CASTT

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Shifts

Are there shifts in attitude?Where are they?What is the shift?Textual evidence?

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Title

What is your understanding of the title now?◦How is it different from before?

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Theme

Based on the work you have done for the TP CASTT, what do you think the theme is?◦What textual evidence do you have?◦What inferences or prior knowledge led you

there?

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Theme Analysis

Thesis/TS states the themeUse TP CASTT to structure rest of

paragraph to support your analysis of the theme.