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Task 3: Looking at Poetry from Three Sides

You will analyze one of your poets pieces that best represents his or her
contribution to change (personal, societal, cultural). This analysis will become a
part of your scrapbook.
Page 1: Poem: the title and poets name should be at the top of the page. Include your
handwritten markings of your thoughts and ideas about the poem as you read and
analyze it.
Page 2:
Introduction Paragraph: Understanding
Background: Introduce the poem by giving the title and poets name with a short
summary of what the poem is about. Give any interesting or relevant information
about the poem or poet that relates to the theme of the poem or transformation.
In the poem _________________________ by ____________________________ we learn about
poem title
poets name
_______________________________________________________________________________________
summary of what the poem is about
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Thesis: State how your poets poem is transformational and what poetic devices they
use to accomplish that transformation.
_____________________ wrote the poem ____________________to express the
poets name
poem title
(feelings/emotions/theme/concept) of _________________________________________ hoping
to
main idea(s) of poem
transform (people/society/culture) through his/her use of
____________________________________ and
1st poetic device

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___________________________________ to create an emotional energy that would motivate

2nd poetic device
(personal/societal/cultural) change.
Body Paragraph 1: Analyze 1st Poetic Device

Point One Topic Sentences: Tell what poetic device the poet uses and how it in
transformational.
By using __________________________ in ________________________,
_________________________
1st poetic device
poem title
poets name
is able to transform
_______________________________________________________________________
Explain how the poetic device helps transform the text to affect
the readers feelings,
_______________________________________________________________________________________
emotions, perspective, opinion, etc.
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Example One: Quote a line that uses the poetic device.
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Line from poem using 1st poetic device
Explain: Explain how this poetic device helps the poem be transformational.
The use of ____________________________ transforms the
_____________________________________
1st poetic device
transformed and how

what is being

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_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Example Two: Quote another line that uses the poetic device.
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Line from poem using 1st poetic device
Explain: Explain how this poetic device helps the poem be transformational.
The use of ____________________________ transforms the
______________________________________
1st poetic device

what is being

transformed and how

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Conclusion Sentences: Tell the reader what they should now know about how this
poetic device helps transform people, society, or culture.
Through _____________________________ use of ____________________________ the reader is
able to
poets name
1st poetic device
(appreciate/value/respect/discover)
__________________________________________________________
the readers feelings, emotions, perspective,
opinion, etc. that the
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
poet wants them to transform

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Body Paragraph 2: Analyze 2nd Poetic Device

Point Two Topic Sentences: Tell what poetic device the poet uses and how it in
transformational.
By using __________________________ in ________________________,
_________________________
2nd poetic device
poem title
poets name
is able to transform
_______________________________________________________________________
Explain how the poetic device helps transform the text to affect
the readers feelings,
_______________________________________________________________________________________
emotions, perspective, opinion, etc.
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Example One: Quote a line that uses the poetic device.
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Line from poem using 2nd poetic device

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Explain: Explain how this poetic device helps the poem be transformational.
The use of ____________________________ transforms the
_____________________________________
2nd poetic device
transformed and how

what is being

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Example Two: Quote another line that uses the poetic device.
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Line from poem using 2nd poetic device
Explain: Explain how this poetic device helps the poem be transformational.
The use of ____________________________ transforms the
______________________________________
2nd poetic device

what is being

transformed and how

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Conclusion Sentences: Tell the reader what they should now know about how this
poetic device helps transform people, society, or culture.
Through _____________________________ use of ____________________________ the reader is
able to
poets name
2nd poetic device
(appreciate/value/respect/discover)

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__________________________________________________________
the readers feelings, emotions, perspective,
opinion, etc. that the
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
poet wants them to transform

Conclusion Paragraph: Evaluation

Restated Thesis: Restate how your poets poem is transformational and what poetic
devices they use to accomplish that transformation.
_____________________ crafted the poem to communicate the
(feelings/emotions/theme/concept) of
poets name
_________________________________________ wanting to transform (people/society/culture)
through main idea(s) of poem
the use of ____________________________________ and ___________________________________
to

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1st poetic device

2nd poetic

device
provoke an inner spirit that would activate (personal/societal/cultural) change.

Summary: Summarize how it all comes together to be a good transformational poem.

Restate parts of your explanations from body paragraphs 2 and 3 that explain how it is
transformational.
The poem as a whole acts as a means for change by
_____________________________________________
restate parts of your
explanations from body
_______________________________________________________________________________________
paragraphs 2 and 3 that explain how it is transformational
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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So What?: What understanding should the reader now have about your poem and
poet?
With the poem _______________________, ___________________________ was able to
transform
poem title
poets name
(people/society/culture)
by_________________________________________________________________
what effect did this poem have on people/society/culture

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