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USING A TP CASTT. A student guide to poetry analysis. What is the title? What do you think the title means? What does it suggest this work is about?. Title. Put the content of the work in your own words. Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line. Paraphrase.
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USING A TP CASTT A student guide to poetry analysis
What is the title? • What do you think the title means? • What does it suggest this work is about? Title
Put the content of the work in your own words. • Can organize stanza by stanza or chronologically by line Paraphrase
Pick out words with strong emotional attachments—Connotations. • Analyze the words and their connotations • This will help you identify the attitude (tone) Connotation
What is the overall attitude of the work? • What textual support do you have? • Look at other sections of the TP CASTT Attitude
Are there shifts in attitude? Where are they? What is the shift? Textual evidence? Shifts
What is your understanding of the title now? • How is it different from before? Title
Based on the work you have done for the TP CASTT, what do you think the theme is? • What textual evidence do you have? • What inferences or prior knowledge led you there? Theme
Thesis/TS states the theme • Use TP CASTT to structure rest of paragraph to support your analysis of the theme. Theme Analysis