Poetry Reading Journal: "Still I Rise"
INSTRUCTIONS
In your Poetry Reading Journal document, answer the following questions, giving examples/quotations from the poem to support or explain your answers. Remember that when you quote from a poem, you give the line numbers in parenthesis. If quoting two or more lines, use a slash to indicate a line break. Example: "And you laugh back nor can you ever see/The thousand little deaths my heart has died"(7-8).
Create a heading with the title of the poem. Then answer the questions below.
QUESTIONS
- Who seems to be the "you" addressed in the poem?
- How would you describe the poem's tone, and which features of the poem seem most key to determining the tone?
- What is the effect of the use of questions?
- Does the tone remain consistent or change over the course of the poem? Explain.