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 7:30 am on the due date [PDF format is suggested only for turnitin]. 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
choose from the list provided. Make sure to choose a poem that 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/synonyms or connotations of key words or difficult vocabulary in the poem in order 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 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 Full
Name and class period 4. Photo illustrating the title of the poem
6. In order to concentrate on the audience better and the poem during your presentation, make sure to practice beforehand
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). Don’t use any outside sources to
complete this analysis. However, 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) electronic copy of your
PowerPoint presentation either on a USB, your email, your school Student Drive, Google Drive. The hard copy of
your presentation MUST match your turnitin submission and if the assignment is not uploaded to turnitin or
doesn’t match the hard copy, the presentaiton 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