Claim Data

Warrant
Power Paragraph
 Step 1
Claim –
For a single paragraph, a claim acts as your thesis
and topic sentence. For any literature that is being
analyzed, always include the title and author in your claim.
Since these paragraphs are for poetry, how should we
punctuate the title?
Additionally, our analysis is going to focus on how
poetry tools are used to create the theme.
This, too, will be stated in the first sentence (claim).
Furthermore, after the theme is discovered, you need
to state it in the claim with strong word choice.
Remember the theme is the author’s observation
about life and human nature, and should not be
just “anger” or “separation,” but how does anger or
separation affect people.
 Sentence 1
1.Title and author
2.Poetry tools
3.Theme
 
Claim
In the poem “Mending wall,” Robert Frost uses
metaphor and personification to create the theme
of building walls, literal or figurative, that
separate people from each other.
 Poetry: Claim Data Warrant Power Paragraph
 
CDW Power Paragraph:
 
• Sentence 1: Topic Sentence that includes the title and author [Claim]
• Sentence 2: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 3: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 4: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 5: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 6: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 7: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 8: Conclusion [Tie back to claim.]
 
Sentence 1: Claim [thesis/topic sentence that includes the title and
author]: In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost uses metaphor and
personification to create the theme of building walls, literal or figurative, that
separate people from each other.
 Poetry: Claim Data Warrant Power Paragraph
 
CDW Power Paragraph:
 
• Sentence 1: Topic Sentence that includes the title and author [Claim]
• Sentence 2: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 3: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 4: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 5: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 6: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 7: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 8: Conclusion [Tie back to claim.]
 
Follow these steps:
Data
 
1. For sentence 2, find one or two examples of data you can use to
support this claim. Write down line numbers for example. You
may use more than 3 sentences.
Sentences 2-4
Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
Data Warrant: Explanation
important) and connection to
(quote line numbers) With example
theme
     
     

     
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 Example 1
1 Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
2 That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
3 And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
4 And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

Example 2
16 To each the boulders that have fallen to
each.
17 And some are loaves and some so nearly
balls
Follow these steps:
Data
 
1. For sentence 2, find 1 or two examples of data you can use to
support this claim. Write down line numbers for example. You
may use more than 3 sentences.
Sentences 2-4
Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
Data Warrant: Explanation
important) and connection to
(quote line numbers) With example
theme
     
     
Lines 1 – 4
Personification

     
     
Lines 16 and 17  
Metaphor
 Poetry: Claim Data Warrant Power Paragraph
 
CDW Power Paragraph:
 
• Sentence 1: Topic Sentence that includes the title and author [Claim]
• Sentence 2: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 3: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 4: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 5: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 6: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 7: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 8: Conclusion [Tie back to claim.]
 
 Warrant
3. Then, for each example, list words, ideas,
and phrases you can use to connect the data to
the claim. Sentences 2-4
Data Warrant: Explanation Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
(quote line numbers) With example important) and connection to theme

     
  The freezing ground pushed
Lines 1 – 4 the rocks away tearing
Personification down the wall
 

     
     
Lines 16 and 17 The rocks are compared to  
Metaphor loaves of bread
4. Finally, the most important portion of the
warrant is telling why the data is significant.
Sentences 2-4
Data Warrant: Explanation Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
(quote line numbers) With example important) and connection to theme

     
 
The freezing ground Nature is personified
Lines 1 – 4
pushed the rocks away showing its resistance to
Personification
tearing down the wall confinement
 

     
 
  Metaphor gives the reader
Lines 16 and 17
The rocks are compared to a relatable size of the
Metaphor
loaves of bread material chosen to
separate.
 
 
 5. Now do the same for sentence 5.
Sentence 5
Data Warrant: Explanation Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
(quote line numbers) With examples important) and connection to theme

     
     

     
     
 Example 1
24 He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

Example 2
25 My apple trees will never get across
26 And eat the cones under his pines, I tell
him.
 5. Now do the same for sentence 5.
Sentence 5
Data Warrant: Explanation Warrant: Your analysis (why is it
(quote line numbers) With examples important) and connection to theme

     
   
 
Line 24
Personification

     
   
 
Line 25 – 26
Personification
 Sentences 5 -7

Warrant: Your analysis (why is it

Data Warrant: Explanation
important) and connection to
(quote line numbers) With examples
theme

     
 
   
Line 24 Comparison of the
Personification neighbors to the trees they
own

     
 
   
Line 25 – 26 Personification of the apple
Personification trees eating the pine cones
 Sentences 5-7

Data Warrant: Explanation Warrant: Your analysis (why is it

(quote line numbers) With examples important) and connection to theme

     
     
Line 24 Comparison of the Metaphor used with the
Personification neighbors to the trees they personification in the next
own two lines to say the wall is
not necessary.

     
     
Line 25 – 26 Personification of the apple Shows the idea that the
Personification trees eating the pine cones wall is not needed because
there is nothing to be kept
out or in
Quote Integration: Embed the quote into a meaningful sentence that
supports the claim and provide analysis of the data.

Nature is personified in the first four lines showing its resistance to

confinement. The illustration shows
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, /That sends the
frozen-ground-swell under it / And spills the upper boulders in the
S# 2-4
sun, / And makes gaps even two can pass abreast” (1- 4).
Frost exemplifies,
“To each the boulders that have fallen to each. / And some
are loaves and some so nearly balls” (16-17).
The desire of the speaker is for the boulders to remain fallen,
especially since they do not want to be there themselves.

S# 5-7
Quote Integration: Embed the quote into a meaningful sentence that
supports the claim and provide analysis of the data.

The illustration shows

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, /That sends the

frozen-ground-swell under it / And spills the upper boulders in the
S# 2-4
sun, / And makes gaps even two can pass abreast” (1- 4).
Frost exemplifies,
“To each the boulders that have fallen to each. / And some
are loaves and some so nearly balls” (16-17).

Additionally, line 24 gives a tone of sarcasm stating “He is all pine and
I am apple orchard” (24). This line of metaphor joined with the
personification of the trees, show the speakers frustration with the
ridiculousness of the situation: “My apple trees will never get across /
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him” (25 – 26). However, the
S# 5-7
neighbor will not be convinced because of tradition: “He will not go
behind his father’s saying” (43).
 Poetry: Claim Data Warrant Power Paragraph
 
CDW Power Paragraph:
 
• Sentence 1: Topic Sentence that includes the title and author [Claim]
• Sentence 2: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 3: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 4: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 5: Example with quotation [Data]
• Sentence 6: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 7: Commentary/Analysis [Warrant]
• Sentence 8: Conclusion [Tie back to claim.]
 
Write a concluding sentence that ties back to the claim [sentence
#8]:

Clearly, with personification and metaphor, Frost creates a

theme that shows many walls are not necessary, and
should be removed. The tone of this poem gives the reader
insight into how many people’s ideas or traditions create
needless barriers.
Now you are ready to write the
entire paragraph. You will need to
add your warrants as you write after your
data. Your paragraph
may be more than 8 sentences,
but not less.