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Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose. The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. -Robert Frost.

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1 Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose

2 The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. -Robert Frost

3 The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup.

4 The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup.

5 The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. The real title is….

6 The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup.

7  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

8  Look for two parts

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11 The number of lines is each box is dispensed with. This juxtaposition hypothesizes that the sonnet is a kind of match between nature and art.

12  This leads to a discussion worth having, hinted at in this diagram:

13  What is the purpose of the flattery?  How will the beloved feel when told the speaker’s blazoning will last forever?  Surely the speaker means for the compliment to be felt—and returned.

14  Dividing a passage according to its meaning structure suggests a paragraph structure for an essay.

15 This is an imagist poem (remember “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams? There are many avenues into the speaker- audience conversation in the following poem, through point of view, subject matter, tone, effect on audience.

16 The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound

17  Each of the following box diagrams express rhetorical choices, suggesting meaning or theme

18 The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound

19 Ah, now we can began an essay…. Ezra Pound’s two-line poem “In a Station of the Metro” functions as a dialogue between mystery and understanding.


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