TPCASTT: Poem Analysis Method:
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Title of poem means:
The title of the poem refers to the death of one's interior which includes the intellectual and the emotional.
Paraphrase parts of the Poem:
The character feels a funeral in their brain, they see the mourners coming, and being put into a box. The character/narrator feels completely alone, but then he begins to reason and begins to spiral out of control. And he hit a world, reality, and finished knowing.
Connotation of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values:
Mourners - sadness, crying, accepting the loss of
Attitude What is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?:
The attitude of the author and the character is hopeless. They have given up on trying, they are depressed, and the story has a gloominess to it, which makes sense because of the funeral setting. The readers are also put into this mood that things are over and that nothing can be done to return to a state of happiness, or to recuperate what has been lost in intellectual or emotional matter.
Shift At first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift: identify the shifts and explain them:
The shift comes in the last stanza, where the character seems to be broken out of their trance and spirals out of the little control they had left, coming face to face with reality.
Title revisited Any new insights on meaning or significance of title?:
The poem is not written in the present tense, either the person has given up completely, or they have removed themselves from this type of thinking.
Theme:
All humans eventually feel like they have reached their max, or that they have spiraled out of control, the hard part is working up the courage to help ones own self.
Treading - walking without a route, not knowing what should come next
Numb - absence (of feeling or life)
Box - trapped, enclosure, or the casket, suffocating
Space - infinite, without limits, darkness, fear
Heavens - purity, angels, white, God
Solidarity - silence, despair, sadness
Finished - death
The attitude of the author and the character is hopeless. They have given up on trying, they are depressed, and the story has a gloominess to it, which makes sense because of the funeral setting. The readers are also put into this mood that things are over and that nothing can be done to return to a state of happiness, or to recuperate what has been lost in intellectual or emotional matter.
Shift At first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift: identify the shifts and explain them:
The shift comes in the last stanza, where the character seems to be broken out of their trance and spirals out of the little control they had left, coming face to face with reality.
Title revisited Any new insights on meaning or significance of title?:
The poem is not written in the present tense, either the person has given up completely, or they have removed themselves from this type of thinking.
Theme:
All humans eventually feel like they have reached their max, or that they have spiraled out of control, the hard part is working up the courage to help ones own self.
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