Poetry Analysis Honors Text

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Poetry Analysis Practice

Directions: Using the literary elements that we discussed in class yesterday, analyze the following
poems.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by: Robert Frost
Literary Element Identification
Natures first green is gold,
Find and label examples of the
following items in this poem:
Alliteration, assonance,
consonance, rhyme, repetition,
symbolism, and stanza structure.
What do you think this poem is
symbolic of?
Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Prove it with evidence from the

poem.
Nothing gold can stay.
Vocabulary
1. Hue--color
2. Subsidesdiminish; descend; sink to a lower level.
3. Edenparadise; the garden of Adam and Eve
4. Griefsadness or despair
Answer the following questions and complete the activities about this poem:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Why do you think this title is appropriate for this poem? Explain.
Paraphrase each SENTENCE in this poem.
What is the overall subject of this poem?
What is the authors tone(attitude) toward the subject? Use an example from the poem to
prove your point.
5. How does this poem relate to you? In other words, what lesson did you learn from reading this
poem that you could apply to your own life? Fill in the blank below:
This poem teaches me about life because____________________________________________.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by: Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
Literary Element
Identification
Find and label examples of
the following items in this
poem:
Alliteration, rhyme,
repetition, imagery, rhyme
scheme (label it),
symbolism, and stanza
structure.
His house is in the village, though;

He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Vocabulary
downyfeatherlike
queerodd or unusual
My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
What do you think this

poem is symbolic of?
He gives his harness bells a shake
Prove it with evidence from

the poem.
To ask if there is some mistake

The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
1.
2.
3.
4.
prove your point.
The Rider
by: Naomi Shihab Nye
A boy told me

If he rollerskated fast enough

his loneliness couldnt catch up to him.
Alliteration, assonance,
imagery.
Who is the speaker in this
poem?
Prove it with evidence from

the poem.
Vocabulary
translatesexpresses the
same thing in another
form.
the best reason I ever heard

for trying to be a champion.
luminousgiving off
light.
What I wonder tonight

pedaling hard down King William Street
What type of poem is this?
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your lonliness

Panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas.
luminous pink petals that have
never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.
1.
2.
3.
4.
prove your point.
Mother to Son
by: Langston Hughes
Well, son, Ill tell you:
Life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Vocabulary
crystalmade of
brilliant glass.
Its had tacks in it,

And splinters,
And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor
Imagery, symbolism, dialect,

metaphor
Bare.
But all the time
Ise been a-climbin on,
Who is the speaker in this poem?

Prove it with evidence from the
poem.
And reachin landins,

And turnin corners,
And sometimes goin in the dark
Where there aint been no light.
What details in the poem support

the conclusion that life has not
been easy for the mother?
So boy, dont you turn back.

Dont you set down on the steps
Cause you find its kinder hard.
Dont you fall now
List four symbols of hardship in

the poem.
For Ise still goin honey.

Ise still climbin,
And life for me aint been no crystal stair.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What is the authors tone(attitude) toward the subject? Use an example from the poem to prove your
point.
This poem teaches me about life because__________________________________________.

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Poetry Analysis Practice

Her hardest hue to hold.

Prove it with evidence from the

Nothing gold can stay.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

His house is in the village, though;

My little horse must think it queer

What do you think this

Prove it with evidence from

To ask if there is some mistake

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.

Find and label examples of the

If he rollerskated fast enough

Prove it with evidence from

the best reason I ever heard

What I wonder tonight

What type of poem is this?

A victory! To leave your lonliness

Its had tacks in it,

Literary Element Identification

And places with no carpet on the floor

Imagery, symbolism, dialect,

Who is the speaker in this poem?

And reachin landins,

What details in the poem support

So boy, dont you turn back.

List four symbols of hardship in

For Ise still goin honey.

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