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

  1. Who seems to be the "you" addressed in the poem?
  2. How would you describe the poem's tone, and which features of the poem seem most key to determining the tone? 
  3. What is the effect of the use of questions?
  4. Does the tone remain consistent or change over the course of the poem?  Explain.