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Name: Title of Poem: Period:

Directions: Complete the TPCASTT annotation method to analyze A Poison Tree by William Blake
Title 1-2 I wonder what the poem is gonna be about?
Ponder the title before reading. Make up
questions about the title. There are two How long is it gonna be about?
kinds of titles: interactive titles and naming Deadly malice is lingerent and growing like the branches of a tree
titles. Interactive titles have some sort of
interplay with the piece
itself and can affect its meaning. Naming
titles may give less crucial information.
What do you think of whenever you first
read the title?

Paraphrase
In no more than three sentences explain the
plot of the story. At times, a thorough The speaker is mad with a foe rather than a confrontation the speaker lets his anger grow into a tree
paraphrase of the selection will be required.

Connotation
Contemplate the poem for meaning beyond
the literal. Identify and figure out the Blake uses an AABB rhyme scheme,
figurative
language (Examples: simile, metaphor,
personification, hyperbole et cetera). What
sensory
details, images, or figures of speech can you
find and interpret in the writing
Attitude
After identifying a subject/topic of the
piece, figure out how the speaker (and/or
the writer) feels about it. What is the
speaker’s attitude, or tone, in the writing?
Name: Title of Poem: Period:

Shift
Rarely does a poem begin and end the
poetic experience in the same place. As is
true
of most us, the poet's understanding of an
experience is a gradual realization, and the
poem is a reflection of that understanding or
insight. Watch for the following keys to
shifts:
• key words, (but, yet, however, although)
• punctuation (dashes, periods, colons,
ellipsis)
• stanza divisions
• changes in line or stanza length or both
• irony
• changes in sound that may indicate
changes in meaning
• changes in diction
Title revisited
Examine the title again, this time on an
interpretive level. Answer questions you
may have from
the first evaluation of the title. Figure out
how the title illuminates the piece.
Remember a
"naming title" may not mean much.
Remember you can do this with the first line
of a poem if it
lacks a title or you can skip this step
altogether if allowed. Does the title have
any special
meaning? Does it have more than a surface-
level meaning?
Name: Title of Poem: Period:

Theme
After identifying a subject/topic of the
poem, determine what the author thinks
about the
subject. Define his/her opinion. What is the
selection really about? What universal
experience or truth does the selection
convey?
Name: Title of Poem: Period:

Directions: Complete the TPCASTT annotation method to analyze The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Title
Ponder the title before reading. Make up
questions about the title. There are two
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
kinds of titles: interactive titles and naming
titles. Interactive titles have some sort of
interplay with the piece
itself and can affect its meaning. Naming
titles may give less crucial information.
What do you think of whenever you first
read the title?

Paraphrase
In no more than three sentences explain the
plot of the story. At times, a thorough The speaker is mad with the foe rather
than
paraphrase of the selection will be required.

Connotation
Contemplate the poem for meaning beyond
the literal. Identify and figure out the
figurative
language (Examples: simile, metaphor,
personification, hyperbole et cetera). What
sensory
details, images, or figures of speech can you
find and interpret in the writing
Attitude
After identifying a subject/topic of the
piece, figure out how the speaker (and/or
the writer) feels about it. What is the
speaker’s attitude, or tone, in the writing?

Shift
Rarely does a poem begin and end the
Name: Title of Poem: Period:

poetic experience in the same place. As is


true
of most us, the poet's understanding of an
experience is a gradual realization, and the
poem is a reflection of that understanding or
insight. Watch for the following keys to
shifts:
• key words, (but, yet, however, although)
• punctuation (dashes, periods, colons,
ellipsis)
• stanza divisions
• changes in line or stanza length or both
• irony
• changes in sound that may indicate
changes in meaning
• changes in diction
Title revisited
Examine the title again, this time on an
interpretive level. Answer questions you
may have from
the first evaluation of the title. Figure out
how the title illuminates the piece.
Remember a
"naming title" may not mean much.
Remember you can do this with the first line
of a poem if it
lacks a title or you can skip this step
altogether if allowed. Does the title have
any special
meaning? Does it have more than a surface-
level meaning?
Name: Title of Poem: Period:

Theme
After identifying a subject/topic of the
poem, determine what the author thinks
about the
subject. Define his/her opinion. What is the
selection really about? What universal
experience or truth does the selection
convey?

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