TPCASTT Poetry Analysis Form



TP-CASTT

|Title: What predictions can you make from the title? |A great day at the beach. They go the beach for their vacation as a family. |

|What are your initial thoughts about the poem? What | |

|might be the theme of the poem? | |

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|Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in your own words. |In the poem ‘Dover Beach’ Arnold is describing the slow and solemn rumbling sound made by the sea waves |

| |as they swing backward and forward on the pebbly shore. One can clearly hear his monotonous sound all the|

| |time. The withdrawing waves roll the pebbles back towards the sea, and then after a pause, the returning |

| |waves roll them up on shore. |

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|Connotation: Write the connotative or interpretive |The kind of writer’s hidden meaning either personal or public is called connotation. For example in |

|meaning of the poem. What’s below the surface? What |Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” consists of four, each containing a variable number of verses. |

|is the connotative meaning of the poem? Find | |

|examples of imagery, metaphors, similes, etc. and | |

|elaborate on their connotative meanings. | |

|Attitude: What attitude does the poet have toward the|“Arnold’s “Dover Beach” lamenting the transition from an age of certainty into an era of erosion of |

|subject of the poem? Find and list examples that |traditions Modernism is the backbone of all four stanzas of the poem, brought together in our imagination|

|illustrate the tone and mood of the poem. |by the nostalgic image of the sea. |

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|Shift: Is there a shift in the tone/attitude of the |The use of diction brings the reader toward two separate tones, yet they uniquely contribute to general |

|poem? Where is the shift? What does the tone shift |felling of pessimism that Matthew Arnold portrays. |

|to? | |

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|Title: Revisit the title and explain any new insights|“Dover Beach is a part of a short lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was published in 1867|

|it provides to the meaning of the poem. Discuss the |in the collection of new poems, but surviving notes that indicates its composition. |

|meaning on an interpretive level. | |

|Theme: What is the overall theme of the poem? What is|Is human misery and it is not permanent like the ebbing and flowing of the waves. |

|the poet saying? | |

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