Poetry Response Sheet

Poetry Response Sheet Group Members: ______________________________________ Name of poem: _____________________ Author of poem: ____________________ 1. What is this poem about? Summarize the meaning of the poem and point to specific examples to defend your summary. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is the overall emotional feeling (mood) of this poem? What words or emphasis of words did the author use to cause you to believe this? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What does this poem make you think about? Does it relate to any experience you have ever had? Explain. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What two things do you like about this poem, or what two things do you dislike about this poem? Explain why you reacted this way. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Discus one element of poetry that you noticed at play in this poem (rhyming, alliteration, allusion, etc) and how it affected the poem overall. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. If you had the opportunity to ask the author of the poem one question, what would you ask? Explain why you chose this particular question, and how you think the author might respond to the question. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________