1. Choices By: Tess Gallagher
Power point by Alex Burton

2. poem In the form of 1 stanza Twelve lines (fit to screen)
I go to the mountain side of the house to cut saplings, and clear a view to snow on the mountain. But when I look up, saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in the uppermost branches. I don’t cut that one. I don’t cut the others either. Suddenly, in every tree, an unseen nest where a mountain would be.
In the form of 1 stanza
Twelve lines (fit to screen)
Is about her live when she lived in the mountains and they chopped trees down

3. Biographical Information
She was born in Port Angeles, Washington in the year 1943
She is a poet, short story writer, essayist, screen play writer, editor, literary executor, and translator
She lives in Port Angeles, Washington
She went to college at University of Washington

4. Rhythm Imagery Rhythm Imagery I go to the mountain side
This is all rhythm because it take a lot of words to get a constant flow
Imagery
I go to the mountain side
of the house to cut saplings,
and clear a view to snow
on the mountain. But when I look up,
saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in
the uppermost branches.
Imagery
These two are imagery because they show what the things it says looks like and goes into detail

5. I don’t cut the others either.
Rhyme
This is the only time that the author rhymed and this is gives the effect of rhythm also
Rhyme
Repetition
Repetition
I don’t cut that one.
I don’t cut the others either.
Suddenly, in every tree,
an unseen nest
where a mountain
would be.
This shows that she realizes that she should not cut down the trees for sure

6. Poetic Terms Hyperbole Metaphor
I go to the mountain side
of the house to cut saplings,
and clear a view to snow
on the mountain. But when I look up,
saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in
the uppermost branches.
I don’t cut that one.
I don’t cut the others either.
Suddenly, in every tree,
an unseen nest
where a mountain
would be.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
At the end where it says where a mountain should be. This is exaggerating because the mountain is still there.
It is at the middle where it says but when I look up, saw in hand. This is a metaphor because it says saw in hand. The nest where still in the trees so not in hands.

7. Poetic Terms Volta Cynghanedd
I go to the mountain side
of the house to cut saplings,
and clear a view to snow
on the mountain. But when I look up,
saw in hand, I see a nest clutched in
the uppermost branches.
I don’t cut that one.
I don’t cut the others either.
Suddenly, in every tree,
an unseen nest
where a mountain
would be.
Volta
Cynghanedd
This when there is a sudden change in words that changes emotion.
This is when it says suddenly, in every tree. This changes the emotion and view very quickly.
This is just a basic sense of sound- concept within one line.
This is the last line it shows this with the rhythm and rhyme.

8. Images Mountain side Saplings in snow
I go to the mountain side of the house to cut saplings, and clear a view to snow on the mountain

9. Images

10. Theme
The them is “things seem more important than what they seem” I get this because as soon as the speaker sees the nest she does not cut the trees. And at the end it says “an unseen nest where a mountain should be” this shows that the speaker regrets cutting down all the other trees.

11. Hyperlinks http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/178872