The Waking
By Theodore Roethke
presentation by Mary Kate Magyar and Megan Matter

Elements of Poetry

• Structure: rhythm poem
• Stanza: five tercets and a quatrain
• Rhyming poem
• Rhyme scheme: 1-2 ( ABA) 3 ( CDA) 4-5 ( ADA) 6 ( ABAA)
• Repetition words : slow, go, know
• " I learn by going where I have to go" " I wake to sleep and take my waking slow"

POETIC MEANING

• Speaker: First Person
• Tone: formal
• Poetic language:figurative language : personification
• Ex) " Light takes the tree;"

POETIC mEANING

• Denotation: almost every word
• Connotation: "worm" being used to represent a low rank
• Paradox: " I wake to sleep"

FORM AND TYPE

• Form: formal poem
• Type: lyric poem

Theme:
As you grow older, you become more aware of yourself and nature

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