1. My Guilt
By Agnes Copithorne

2. Examine the Title
What images, feelings, stories does it make you think of? What COULD this poem be about?

3. Imagery The hat: “[Freddy] bursting with pride” (124)
“ All day I felt his troubled gaze upon me” (125)
“Ears red with cold” (125)

4. Symbolism “It cost one dollar and twenty cents” Badger hole
Her hat was am old red one from last year. Why red?
He came to school “bareheaded” (125)- in what other ways?

5. Metaphor: A comparison: “Freddy’s sad face haunts me” (125)
“Freddie was a fat and freckle faced with wheat-straw hair” (123)

6. Unknown Words
Badger
Loiter
Callous

7. Simile
“My heart was like a stone in my breast” (125)

8. Repetition
Alliteration: “When I was twelve and he was ten” (125)

9. Theme
In life,__________________________

10. Find your own poem/song lyric and analyze it with each of these.
Adapted: Find a poem and read with a pencil.