Agenda:
 Poetry Analysis: Bradstreet
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AP Lit Poetry Essay Format
Outlining a poetry essay
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“Woodchucks”
AP Lit MC
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Format and Practice
Homework:
 Work on your essay
 Come see me in tutorial with questions or if you need help
Take Out:
 Pen/Pencil
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Highlighter
Notebook
Goals for today:
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Explore the importance of a title
Explain how a poet uses a controlling metaphor
Practice AP-style MC questions

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Read Anne Bradstreet’s poem
Answer the questions on the back of the page to the best of your ability:
Who/what is the speaker of the poem? What information is given that defines the speaker?
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Who/what is the subject of the poem? What information is given that defines the subject?
 What is the speaker’s attitude regarding the subject of the poem? Explain how you know, using examples.
 What is the controlling metaphor that the speaker uses to convey their emotions?
What does it show about their attitude?

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A Controlling Metaphor is a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else.
Serves as a way to organize (control) the meaning of the poem.

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The Prompt:
Read carefully the following poem by the colonial American poet,
Anne Bradstreet. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss how the poem’s controlling metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker.
 What do you NEED to address in order to completely answer the prompt?
 How do you find the
“controlling metaphor”?
What is it?
 What is the “complex attitude” of the speaker?

 Imagery  Word Music
 Comparison  Line Breaks

 Thesis creation:
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Re-word the prompt
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Insert information from the poem
 Possible thesis:

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Step 1 – Explain the controlling metaphor
 Step 2 – Explain the “complex attitude”
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Step 3 – Connect the complex attitude of the speaker to the controlling metaphor