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Poetry Analysis
English I
*TP-CASTT
*What is TP-CASTT?
*Reading strategy used to analyze a poetic text
*Allows the reader to decipher meaning from a poet’s work
*What does TP-CASTT mean?
*T = Title
*P = Paraphrase
*C = Connotation
*A = Attitude
*S = Shift
*T = Title…again
*T = Theme
*When analyzing a poem, one should examine each of the components outlined with TP-CASTT
…starting with the first “T” to the last.
*Let’s Practice
*With the poem “Passage” by John M. Roderick, use the TP-CASTT strategy to decipher meaning from the poem
*T = TITLE
*Before you read the poem…
*Make a prediction: What do you think the title “Passage” means?
*P = Paraphrase
*Translate the poem in your own words. What is the poem about? Rephrase the difficult sections word for word.
*C = Connotation
*Look beyond the literal meaning of key words and images to their associations.
*Identify the use of poetic devices and consider how they effect meaning in the poem.
*For “Passage”, look for diction, imagery, and sound devices (alliteration and onomatopoeia)
*A = Attitude
*What is the speaker’s attitude?
*What is the poet’s attitude?
*How does the poet feel about the speaker, about the characters, about the subject?
SPEAKER AND POET ARE
DIFFERENT!
*S = Shifts
*Where do shifts in tone, setting, voice, etc. occur? (Look for time and place, keywords, punctuation, stanza divisions, changes in length or rhyme, and sentence structure.)
*What is the purpose of each shift?
*How does the shift effect the meaning of the poem?
*T = Title
*Reexamine the title. What do you think it means now in the context of the poem?
*T = Theme
*What is the overall theme of the poem.
*THE THEME MUST BE WRITTEN IN A COMPLETE SENTENCE. Theme is a message or complete thought…NOT just one word!
THEME = LOVE LOVE IS BLIND = THEME
*Theme does not have to be a cliché. It is the writer’s message to the reader. What does he/she want the reader to know/learn/think?