english ii. examine the title before reading the poem. consider connotations (other meanings)
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TP – CASTT: A Method for Poetry Analysis
English II
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TITLE Examine the title before reading the
poem. Consider connotations (other
meanings)
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PARAPHRASE Translate the poem into your own
words (literal/denotation). • Resist the urge to jump to interpretation.• A failure to understand what happened
literally inevitably leads to interpretive misunderstanding.
*Paraphrase should be by complete sentences instead of line by line.
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CONNOTATION Examine the poem for meaning
beyond the literal.• Look for:
Imagery Symbolism Irony Allusions Sound Devices
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ATTITUDE/TONE Examine both the speaker’s and the
poet’s attitudes. • Remember, don’t confuse the author with the
“narrator”Look for:
Speaker’s attitude toward self, other characters, and the subject.Attitudes of characters other than the speaker.Poet’s attitude toward speaker, other characters, and suject.
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SHIFTS Note shifts in speaker, attitudes
• Look for: Occasion of poem (time and place) Key words (but, yet) Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons) Stanza divisions Changes in line and or stanza length Irony
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TITLE Examine the title again, this time on
an interpretive level.• Does it still mean the same thing you
thought it did?
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THEME First, list what the poem is about
(subject matter); then determine what the poem is saying about each of those subjects (theme).
Remember, the theme must be expressed in a complete sentence.
Examples:• Love is blind.• Be careful what you wish for.