- Scholars will choose one of the poems to the left and complete an analysis of the poem using TPCASTT.
- Scholars will develop an original poem that mimics the technique, style, and/or author’s craft of the poem that was analyzed. The subject of the poem must relate to an issue, concern, or cause that impacts the local, national, or global community. In addition to the poem, students must include a one paragraph summary that explains the specific techniques that were utilized in the original poem to mimic the author’s craft.
- Scholars will submit both the completed TPCASTT Analysis Template for their chosen poem as well as the original poem and paragraph they have composed.
How Things Work
BY GARY SOTOToday it’s going to cost us twenty dollars
To live. Five for a softball. Four for a book,
A handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls,
Bus fare, rosin for your mother’s violin.
We’re completing our task. The tip I left
For the waitress filters down
Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child
Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go
Of a balled sock until there’s chicken to eat.
As far as I can tell, daughter, it works like this:
You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples
From a fruit stand, and what coins
Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue,
Tickets to a movie in which laughter
Is thrown into their faces.
If we buy a goldfish, someone tries on a hat.
If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom.
A tip, a small purchase here and there,
And things just keep going. I guess.
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