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Tp-Seso For Poetry

This document provides a template for analyzing poems using the TP-SESO method. It breaks the analysis down into the following sections: Title (analyzed before and after reading), Plot, Style and Language, Effect of Style and Language Choices, Shifts, and Overall Message. For each section, it prompts the user to observe specific elements of the poem, like imagery, tone, diction, and structure, without interpretation initially, and then to interpret patterns and their effects. The overall goal is to gain understanding of the poem's meaning and message through a close examination of its component literary elements.

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Tp-Seso For Poetry

This document provides a template for analyzing poems using the TP-SESO method. It breaks the analysis down into the following sections: Title (analyzed before and after reading), Plot, Style and Language, Effect of Style and Language Choices, Shifts, and Overall Message. For each section, it prompts the user to observe specific elements of the poem, like imagery, tone, diction, and structure, without interpretation initially, and then to interpret patterns and their effects. The overall goal is to gain understanding of the poem's meaning and message through a close examination of its component literary elements.

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Name: _________________________

TP-SESO Analysis Worksheet


(for all poetry texts – IOC practice, etc.)
T Title What does the title mean or evoke without your knowledge of the
- Title analysis pre-reading rest of the poem’s content? Is it positive or negative? Is it
straightforward and clear cut or cryptic and confusing? Is there
only one way to interpret the title or more than one (homophones,
etc.)?

- Title post-reading After analyzing the poem thoroughly, re-analyze the title and add
new insights/details you might have
P Plot What is happening, literally, in the poem? What is the literal story
being told? If you had to describe the poem as specifically as
possible, in general terms, in 1 – 3 sentences, how would you do it?

e.g. Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “Little Red Cap” is an allusion to


the fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood,” and it re-creates the tale in
modern terms from the perspective of a young woman who is
romantically involved with a “wolf.”
S Style and Language Imagery: What kind of imagery is used and repeated (motif)? If
there are metaphors and similes, list what is being compared in
*A listing of all the stylistic choices each one.
you see – do not try to make meaning
of it yet. Just notice it and write it Tone: What is the tone? Cite three or more specific words or lines
down – don’t interpret. to support your answer. Is the tone consistent, or does it shift? If it
**Color marking may be quite useful shifts, how and when?
here
Diction: What kind of vocabulary is used? Is there repetition of it?
- Imagery If so note it.
- Tone
- Diction Sound Devices: What consonance, assonance, rhyme,
- Sound Devices onomatopoeia, enjambment, etc. is used? Note patterns.
- Structure and organization
Structure and Organization: Is there a discernible structure?
Rhyme scheme? Grouping of stanzas? Enjambment may also play a
part here, too. If so, note it.

E Effect of Style and Language First, group the patterns. Is there a lot of nature imagery or color
Choices symbolism, etc.? What are they all doing there in the poem? What
conclusions might you draw from their use?
*Now you can interpret all you have
noted from above. What patterns are Can you run a needle and thread through the style and language
important? Focus on those ones only. choices and connect items that may not seem connected at first?
How might imagery connect to tone? Diction to sound devices? See
how many “threads” you have and how many styles and language
items you can pierce with the same “thread.”
S Shift/s Do you notice any major (or minor) shifts throughout the poem
(subject matter, tone, structure, etc.)? Where are they? What is
their effect?
O Overall Message Given your analysis in the last two boxes, what does the poet seem
to be suggesting overall with this poem? Cite a few words or lines
to support that suggestion.

Now go back to the title and reanalyze it. How does it fit into the
bigger picture now, post-analysis?

Name: _________________________

TP-SESO Analysis Worksheet


(for all poetry texts – IOC practice, etc.)
T Title
- Title analysis pre-
reading

- Title post-reading

P Plot

S Style and Language

*A listing of all the stylistic


choices you see – do not try to
make meaning of it yet. Just
notice if and write it down –
don’t interpret.
**Color marking may be quite
useful here

- Imagery
- Tone
- Diction
- Sound Devices
- Structure and
organization

E Effect of Style and Language


Choices

*Now you can interpret all you


have noted from above. What
patterns are important? Focus
on those ones only.
S Shift/s

O Overall Message

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