Poetry and Handsome Young Man

List at least three examples of imagery in the text that add to the overall tone. Explain how each description contributes to the emotional power of the piece.

Prompt: Write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.

the poem. Not only does the choice of diction determine the tone, but also the order in which

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

2) Denotation- is the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. The connotation of a word is its emotional content.

The tone of this poem is established by the way the lines seem flat and void of emotion. The

Before translations and devices, readers should first acknowledge the structure of the poem. In structure there are 8 different topics: speaker, setting, occasion, tone, rhyme, meter, number of lines and stanzas, and language of the poem. In the “Ballad of

|Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. |

Another one of the most important aspects of a great poem, is it’s form. The author’s

Having a persona in a poem, allows the writer to relay what they want to say through a characters actions or thoughts. The use of a persona is quite strong in each of the three texts. In Australia the persona,

Maze (p.26-27) - This is important because it is where the Gladers live. Denotative - a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way. Connotative - The home of the Gladers, the place they need to escape.

d. Through his use of imagery devices throughout the poem, the author’s main message that

5. The falling action of the poem is when the speaker does not die and decides that since the

Though given tone, the author also implements mood into the poem. Mood is the emotional feeling created in the reader throughout the poem. One of the many ways that mood is created is through the tone of the author. Creating mood through tone is when “The attitude of the writer, speaker, or narrator evokes feelings and emotions

1. The poem is written in iambic pentameter with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyming scheme.