1. Create Your Own Work Due date: Friday, May 22, 2015
Poetry Redo!
Create Your Own Work
Due date: Friday, May 22, 2015

2. Poetry Redo!!!! Requirements for poem: SOAPSTONE analysis:
Original work
Form must match the subject
Four poetic devices (imagery not included)
Must present some image
SOAPSTONE analysis:
Explain each aspect of SOAPSTONE.
Explain the effect of each aspect.
Explain why you chose each aspect for the poem’s construction.
Explain the overall effect the audience should receive from the poem.
(This is written as an essay.)

3. SOAPSTONE SPEAKER OCCASION Consider a speaker for your poem Examples:
Your inner voice
Your future self
Your younger self
Your alter ego
Your doppelganger
Some unknown person
A family member
An enemy
A friend
OCCASION
Consider for a particular event of time the poem lives or relives
A memory
A critique
A tribute
An homage
A farewell address
A confrontation
A declaration
An elegy

4. SOAPSTONE AUDIENCE PURPOSE Who your intended audience?
Peers
Parents
Self
Your crush
Loved one
Enemy
Fear
Etc.
PURPOSE
In what manner does the speaker convey the message?
How does the speaker try to spark a reaction in the audience?
How does the poem make the audience feel?
What is the intended effect?

5. SOAPSTONE SUBJECT STYLISTIC and LINQUISTIC ELEMENTS
What is the poem about?
How does the audience know this?
Is the subject revealed immediately or delay the revelation of the subject?
STYLISTIC and LINQUISTIC ELEMENTS
Syntax
Language
Literary devices
Imagery
Diction
Detail
Figurative language
AND what is the effect of these stylistic and linguistic elements?

6. SOAPSTONE TONE ORGANIZTION
What is the author’s attitude toward the subject?
What emotional sense do you take from the piece?
How does the diction point to the tone?
ORGANIZTION
How is the poem organized
How does poet arrange the content?
How is the rhythm and rhyme arranged?
What form of poetry does the poet use?
How does the physical structure of the poem relate its mental arrangement?
Does the poem reveal the following: a list, analogy, climax, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, hierarchy, variation of a single theme, etc?

7. SOAPSTONE NARRATIVE EVIDENCE
How does the poet tell the “story” of the poem?
What does the poet reveal?
What does the poet conceal?
What does the poet express in an opposite manner?
What does the poet express openly?
EVIDENCE
What kind of diction dominates the poem?
What is the source of the images?
How do sound devices contribute to the poem?

8. SPEAKER
OCCASION
AUDIENCE
PURPOSE
SUBJECT
TONE
ORGANZATION
NARRATIVE
EVIDENCE