My GuiltBy Agnes Copithorne

Examine the Title

• What images, feelings, stories does it make you think of? What COULD this poem be about?

Imagery

• The hat: “[Freddy] bursting with pride” (124)

• “ All day I felt his troubled gaze upon me” (125)

“Ears red with cold” (125)

Symbolism

“It cost one dollar and twenty cents”

Badger hole

• Her hat was am old red one from last year. Why red?

• He came to school “bareheaded” (125)- in what other ways?

Metaphor:

• A comparison:

• “Freddy’s sad face haunts me” (125)

• “Freddie was a fat and freckle faced with wheat-straw hair” (123)

Unknown Words

• Badger

• Loiter

• Callous

Simile

• “My heart was like a stone in my breast” (125)

Repetition

• Alliteration: “When I was twelve and he was ten” (125)

Theme

• In life,__________________________

Find your own poem/song lyric and analyze it with each of these.

• Adapted: Find a poem and read with a pencil.