Poetry Response Sheet

Group Members: ______________________________________

Name of poem: _____________________

Author of poem: ____________________

1. What is this poem about? Summarize the meaning of the poem and point to specific examples to defend
your summary.
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2. What is the overall emotional feeling (mood) of this poem? What words or emphasis of words did the
author use to cause you to believe this?
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3. What does this poem make you think about? Does it relate to any experience you have ever had?
Explain.
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4. What two things do you like about this poem, or what two things do you dislike about this poem?
Explain why you reacted this way.
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5. Discus one element of poetry that you noticed at play in this poem (rhyming, alliteration, allusion, etc)
and how it affected the poem overall.
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6. If you had the opportunity to ask the author of the poem one question, what would you ask? Explain
why you chose this particular question, and how you think the author might respond to the question.
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