PowerPoint Poetry Analysis Project
This Poetry Project is due Tuesday, April 4 (major grade and daily grade). Also, you MUST upload the
presentation to turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on the due date. Failure to do so will result in a point reduction.
1. You will demonstrate your understanding of the main images, themes, issues and literary elements of the poem
you chose from the list provided. Make sure your poem provides a wealth of imagery for your slide show. The
focus of your presentation should be the photos/art that you choose to represent the themes/figurative language
in your poem.
2. You will select: 1. art/photos (the size of your graphics should be large enough to be easily viewed by the
audience and the focus of every slide including the title slide) 2. Audio: sounds and/or music 3. short
quotes/questions/key thematic words to create a multimedia presentation using Power Point in order to
demonstrate your understanding of the poem’s literary devices and main ideas, thus demonstrating your
thorough interpretation of the poem. The text added to the presentation by the student, other than the title slide,
cannot be in the lines of the poem or the photos. If the only text in the presentation is on the title slide, there
will be a loss of all points for word choice on the rubric. Likewise, audio and text should be incorporated into
at least 30% of the presentation, not counting the title slide.
3. You will read the poem aloud in class while displaying the slide show.
4. Your Power Point slides should NOT restate the actual text of the poem nor should they include your detailed
analysis of the poem (e.g. DO NOT put the TPCASTT analysis information on your slides), but rather they
must represent, interpret, and extend the poem. You should have as many slides as you have themes (main
points) and other literary elements that you’ve chosen to highlight, and the slides should be in the same order
as the themes and literary elements in the poem.
5. The title slide (first slide of your presentation) must contain: 1. Title of the poem; 2. Author of the poem; 3.
Your First and Last Name and class period; 4. Photo illustrating the title of the poem
6. In order to concentrate better on your audience and the poem during your presentation, make sure to practice
beforehand by going through your slides as you read your poem so that you can go through your slides
smoothly during your presentation. Also, it is strongly suggested that you type or highlight the poem according
to how it is broken up for each slide in your presentation.
7. You will also need to complete the TPCASTT Poetry Analysis worksheet, which is intended to act as an aid in
your analysis of the poem. (This worksheet was handed out in class with this assignment and is also available
on my website). The Literary Terms Glossary in the textbook beginning on page R104 may be very helpful in
completing the TPCASTT.
8. On the due date you need to turn in (1) a hard copy (printed) of your poem with an MLA heading, (2)
your completed TPCASTT worksheet, (3) a print out of all your PowerPoint slides, and (4) submit a pdf
copy of your PowerPoint presentation to turnitin.com; otherwise, the assignment will be counted late
and points will be deducted per the English Department’s late work policy.
Please choose from the following list of poems to complete your poetry analysis
project. For this project you may only use a poem from your literature textbook.
Some poems from the textbook are not listed because you will be analyzing them in
class.
“A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning,”
p. 518
“Ah, Are You Digging on My
Grave?”
p. 1072
“An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death,”
p. 1244
“Composed upon Westminster
Bridge,”
p. 806
“Digging,” p. 1304
“Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night,” p. 1184
“Dreamers,” p. 1247
“Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard,” p. 692
“Fern Hill,” p. 1186
“Holy Sonnet 10,” p. 521
“How Soon Hath Time,” p. 490
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” p.
808
“Kubla Khan,” p. 841
“My Last Duchess,” p. 946
“Musee des Beaux Arts,” p. 1176
“Not Waving but Drowning,” p.
1314
“Ode to a Grecian Urn,” p. 884
“Ode to a Nightingale,” p. 886
“Ode to the West Wind,” p. 864
“On Her Loving Two Equally,” p.
702
“On My First Son,” p. 526
“Ozymandias,” p. 862
“Pied Beauty,” p. 964
“Porphyria’s Lover,” p. 949
“Preludes,” p. 1118
“Remembrance,” p. 956
“Sailing to Byzantium,” p. 1192
“She Walks in Beauty,” p. 850
“Song: To Celia,” p. 528
“Sonnet 30,” p. 320
“Sonnet 43,” p. 954
“Sonnet 75,” p. 321
“Sonnet 18,” p. 326
“Sonnet 29,” p. 328
“Sonnet 116,” p. 329
“Sonnet 292,” p. 337
“Sonnet: England in 1819,” p. 871
“Spring and Fall: To a Young
Child,”
p. 965
“The Chimney Sweeper,” p. 772
“The Darkling Thrush,” p. 1070
“The Frog Prince,” p. 1312
“The Hollow Men,” p. 1120
“The Horses,” p. 1307
“The Lady of Shalott,” p. 930
“The Little Boy Found,” p. 773
“The Little Boy Lost,” p. 773
“The Lorelei,” p. 792
“The Naming of Cats,” p. 1123
“The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd,”
p. 316
“The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love,”
p. 314
“The Sick Rose,” p. 776
“The Soldier,” p. 1246
“The Unknown Citizen,” p. 1178
“The World is Too Much With
Us,” p. 807
“To Althea, from Prison,” p. 535
“To an Athlete Dying Young,” p.
1062
“To Autumn,” p. 882
“To His Coy Mistress,” p. 532
“To a Mouse,” p. 784
“To a Louse,” p. 787
“To a Skylark,” p. 867
“To Marguerite-Continued,” p.
1058
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of
Time” p. 534
“Ulysses,” p. 936
“When I Consider How My Light
Is Spent," p. 491
“When I Have Fears That I May
Cease Be,” p. 880
“When I Was One-and-Twenty,” p.
1064
“When We Two Parted,” p. 852
“When You Are Old,” p. 1196
“Written at the Close of Spring,”
p. 704