1. March 27 - Poetry Agenda: Poetry Analysis: Bradstreet
AP Lit Poetry Essay Format
Outlining a poetry essay
“Woodchucks”
AP Lit MC
Format and Practice
Homework:
Work on your essay
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Goals for today:
Explore the importance of a title
Explain how a poet uses a controlling metaphor
Practice AP-style MC questions

2. Poetry Analysis Read Anne Bradstreet’s poem
Answer the questions on the back of the page to the best of your ability:
Who/what is the speaker of the poem? What information is given that defines the speaker?
Who/what is the subject of the poem? What information is given that defines the subject?
What is the speaker’s attitude regarding the subject of the poem? Explain how you know, using examples.
What is the controlling metaphor that the speaker uses to convey their emotions? What does it show about their attitude?

3. Controlling Metaphor
A Controlling Metaphor is a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else.
Serves as a way to organize (control) the meaning of the poem.

4. The Prompt: An Author To Her Book
Read carefully the following poem by the colonial American poet, Anne Bradstreet. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss how the poem’s controlling metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker.
What do you NEED to address in order to completely answer the prompt?
How do you find the “controlling metaphor”? What is it?
What is the “complex attitude” of the speaker?

5. Four Elements - The Attitude of the Speaker
Imagery
Word Music
Comparison
Line Breaks

6. Outlining Thesis creation: Possible thesis: Re-word the prompt
Insert information from the poem
Possible thesis:

7. Outlining Step 1 – Explain the controlling metaphor
Step 2 – Explain the “complex attitude”
Step 3 – Connect the complex attitude of the speaker to the controlling metaphor