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Poetry Graphic Organizer “Thanatopsis”

Respond to all of the questions with complete sentences. Pre-Reading (1 point) Form: Form is the shape of the Rhyme Scheme: Rhyme scheme is The title of the poem Thanatopsis comes poem. (1 point) the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. from two Greek words: "thanatos" (which Is it divided in to stanzas? Is there a (2 points) means "death") and "opsis" (meaning certain number of lines per stanza? What is the rhyme scheme of the "view," or "sight”). Therefore the poem’s poem? title means “a view of death. What is your view of death?

Internal rhyme is rhyme that occurs within lines of the poem. Is there any internal rhyme? If so, write an example below:

Figurative Language Imagery: Imagery is when the poet Sound Devices (1 point) (4 total points) appeals to one or more of your Are there any sound devices? List Can you find any example of senses. (1 point) the examples below and label them figurative language? List and Is there any imagery in the poem? according to type (i.e. alliteration, categorize the examples below. If What senses (sight, hearing, touch, onomatopoeia, repetition). Write there are none, write “none.” taste, or smell) does the imagery examples below. If there are none, appeal to? Write examples below. If write “none.” Metaphors (including extended metaphors): there is none, write “none.” A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike Alliteration: Repetition of an initial things that does not use a word of comparison. Sight: consonant sound:

Similes: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using a word of comparison, Hearing: usually “like” or “as.” Onomatopoeia: The use of words use sounds express their meaning: Personification: Personification is a giving Touch: an inanimate object humanlike characteristics.

Taste: Hyperbole: Hyperbole is an extreme Repetition: Repeating unusual words: exaggeration.

Smell: Meter: The pattern if stressed and Tone: Tone is the poet’s attitude Literal Meaning (1 point) unstressed syllables (4 points) toward the subject they are What is literally happening within the Is there are pattern to the meter of discussing. (2 points) poem? Do not dig too deep. What did this poem? What is the pattern? you think the poem was about after Follow the steps below: you read through it one time? How many syllables are in each line? What is the tone of the poem? How If there seems to be a pattern to it, the can you tell? poem probably has a meter.

Look at a two-syllable word. Which syllable of the word is stressed? Write your result below.

Does the tone shift? If so, how? Figurative Meaning (1 point) Sketch out the pattern of stressed and What is the underlying meaning of the unstressed syllables (the meter). poem? After analyzing the poem, what do you now think the poem is about? What is the name of the meter?

Theme (2 points) Style (1 point) Extra Credit (1 point) What is the theme of the poem? Evaluate Cullen’s poem, in particular Popular culture is still obsessed with Remember, the theme is the main his style. How would you describe the topics of death and nature. Pick a idea or author’s message. It is a the style with which he writes? In song, poem, or book that deals with perception about life or human nature other words, what devices does he the topics of death, nature, or both that the writer shares with the reader. seem to use the most? Look through and explain how it relates to this An effective way to find the theme is this graphic organizer and see which poem. to identify a subject that the poem poetic devices the poet uses the most deals with and then explain what the and which ones the poet does not author is saying about that subject. seem to use. Use this information to describe his style. Subject that the poem discusses in one word (life, death, faith, friendship)

Theme (what the author’s point is about this subject?)