Poetry: TPCASTT

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Poetry TPCASTT

• Romantics

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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

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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?

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Step 2 Paraphrase

• Read the poem (well 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. Dont use the same words as the
  poet.

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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

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Step 4 Attitude

• Focus on diction and tone
• Complex there need to be images or word choices
  that make you think this

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Presenting Your Analysis

• Be sure that your poet is British Romantic
• Present your poems analysis according to the
  template
• Rubric WILL INCLUDE thoroughness, presentation
  skills, interactivity

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Present Poet and Poem

• Give a short biography of the poet
• Read the poem slowly, clearly, and using
  excellent diction and body language

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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?

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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.
• Dont forget to provide simple step-by-step
  instructions for everything. Everything.
• Did you do something visual? Kinesthetic? Audio?