1. Performance Art
Analysis of Poetry

2. Hazel Tells Laverne Katharyn Machan What is the poem about?
What specific details reveal characteristics about the speaker? Who is she?
Why is “me a princess” italicized? What does this reveal about the speaker?
Diction: An author’s choice of words over others. Rocks vs. Stones vs. Boulders
Hazel Tells Laverne
Katharyn Machan

3. They Siegfried Sassoon What is the poem about?
How does the tone of the two stanzas contradict each other?
Explain the Bishop’s last remark, “The ways of God are strange!”
They
Siegfried Sassoon

4. The Panic Bird Robert Phillips What is the poem about?
Describe how the sensory images add to the poem.
Explain the significance of how the poem started.
What two uses did the author attend by using the word “prey” in the last line?
The Panic Bird
Robert Phillips

5. Fat is Not a Fairytale Jane Yolen What is the poem about?
Who is the intended audience for her message?
How does Yolen criticize the audience in the last stanza?
Explain how this poem is a satire?
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Fat is Not a Fairytale
Jane Yolen

6. Bagel David Ignatow What is the poem about?
What is the author’s attitude towards the poem?
How does the entire meaning of the poem change with the last line, “and strangely happy with myself.”
Bagel
David Ignatow

7. Ballplayer Evie Shockley What is the poem about?
Who is the speaker and what is their relationship to the ballplayer?
How does the speaker treat watching the game of basketball?
Ballplayer
Evie Shockley