Name: Trence Blevins
Period: D2
TP-CASTT
Title: What predictions can you
make from the title? What are your
initial thoughts about the poem?
What might be the theme of the
poem?
Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in
your own words.
Connotation: Write the connotative
or interpretive meaning of the poem.
What’s below the surface? What is the
connotative meaning of the poem?
Find examples of imagery, metaphors,
similes, etc. and elaborate on their
connotative meanings.
Attitude: What attitude does the poet
have toward the subject of the poem?
Find and list examples that illustrate
the tone and mood of the poem.
Shift: Is there a shift in the
I think just by looking at this title it is going to be about a small journey
where there are a lot of adventures happen.
This poem is about a person who is going through hard times and
traveling through the night and as they travel they are traveling there
are old dirty villages that are charging high prices. Then at dawn they
came down to a temperate valley smelling vegetation, with a running
stream and water-mill. They finally found a place (you might say)
satisfactory and all this was almost time ago. This is a set led all the
way from birth to death and they returned to their kingdoms where
people are clutching their gods.
Then at dawn we came down to temperate valley, wet, below the snow
line, smelling of vegetation with a running stream and a water-mill
beating the darkness, and three trees on the low sky & an old white
horse galloped away in the meadow Birth or Death?
The surprise in the speakers tone in the Journey Of The Magi is the
absolute joy coming through when he sees the Christ child. “But
thought they were different; this birth was hard and bitter agony for us,
like Death, our death.
My poem does not have a shift and mood
tone/attitude of the poem? Where is
the shift? What does the tone shift to?
Title: Revisit the title and explain
any new insights it provides to the
meaning of the poem. Discuss the
meaning on an interpretive level.
Theme: What is the overall theme of
the poem? What is the poet saying?
The title of the poem Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot is based on the
main action within the poem. The narrator of the poem is one of the
three magi who visit the infant Jesus.
The theme of the "Journey of the Magi" is chock full of traditions being
challenged left and right. There's this strange sense of impending doom
about the birth of Jesus, and the dawning knowledge that the old way of
life for these Magi is long gone. You'd think that a poem about the birth
of Jesus would be all kinds of happy about ushering in a new era of
religious exaltation, but mostly this poem is moping about a long-dead
past.
Name: Trence Blevins
Period: D2