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Name_________________ Analysis 1. Write the meaning of your poem in the form of a lesson, moral, or theme. 2. Quotes that stand out How do they help with the meaning? 3. Explain the feeling (not your feeling as you read, but the feeling portrayed) How does it help the meaning? 4. Label various figurative language terms and techniques in the poem: alliteration, repetition, simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, etc. To You To sit and dream, to sit and read, To sit and learn about the world Outside our world of here and now--- Our problem world--- To dream of vast horizons of the soul Through dreams made whole, Unfettered, free--- help me! All you who are dreamers too, Help me to make Our world anew. I reach out my dreams to you. -Langston Hughes 5. What meaningful technique/term is used in the poem? Where is it used? (Example) How does it help the meaning of the poem? 6. Write your 8 sentence paragraph following your rubric guidelines. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |