Prompt: Analyze how the speaker's complex attitude toward the true subject is created by language.
Explain how this complex attitude creates the meaning of the work as a whole. Write Introduction
﻿﻿Summarize what the poem is about as a whole while using some language from the text.
﻿﻿Answer the prompt.
﻿﻿Articulate the argument/theme about the true subject.
﻿﻿State the types of language that the author uses to make his/her case or establish the theme.
Write 1st body
• Include Analysis of at least 4 (the tone words I chose was acrimonious, gloomy, hopelessness, and fatalistic which is what you’re using) words that create this attitude
> Focus on explaining how these words develop the speaker's specific feelings about the subject 
• Connect everything back to theme. Here are some examples (TE means text evidence which is something you HAVE to include. Use the mistakes from the examples to help you make this perfect): Excellent analysis....now needs to connect it to theme.
Thesis: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks displays a hopeless and somber tone regarding the African American condition in the United States.[ADD THEME]
BP1: Hopelessness is portrayed through Brook's use of the word "jazz" in the context of the poem. Jazz is colorful, vibrant, and full of life, and choosing to include this imagery adds an uplifting tone to the work. [ relate "jazz" to other uplifting words in the poem and discuss why they are included] But this tone is shattered by the juxtaposition of the next line" We die soon." It changes the tone from uplifting to hopelessness as color and life is silenced by the darkness of death. Jazz is beautiful but the players are dead. "We," the collective speakers and audience are dead. There is no hope for life or beauty when we cannot preserve it. Leaving
"school and lurking "late" show this hopeless attitude further as African Americans acted this way to avoid hate. [Add more about his in order to develop the theme.], Does all of the things but needs to add more to connect the dots
The robotic tone of "We Real Cool" contradicts the language that the speakers use in the poem. [specify how robots are different than the way the pool players want to see themselves] Each "pool player" in the poem seemingly has a line that tells the reader who they are as a whole not individually. For example, "We real cool" and "We thin gin" and "we jazz June" all seem playful and rebellious to the society and their rules, but the way the pool players say the word "we" over and over makes it seem like they are not in control. [connect this lack of control back to the idea of "robotic] Somehow a spell was cast over them to make them think that this is the only way they can live. The last line "We die soon" kind of solidifies this idea because they are OK with dying soon because of this lifestyle which proves that being in society isn't worth it. [explain how the TE solidifies this theme], Excellent analysis....now needs to connect it to theme.
Initially, the speaker of "Alone with Everybody" develops a sense of detachment from human nature, placing himself as someone who is "above" basic human desires such as love. Bukowski begins his poems with the words "flesh covers bone" to describe human beings. Rather than focusing on emotional qualities or specific features, reducing people to mere "flesh" and "bone" and giving life to the idea that humans are no more than animals. Later, he describes the way people are "crawling" through life and searching for love. "Crawl" is a very primitive and desperate word-associated with acting on instinct, rather than human intellect. Describing the way they "crawl in and out of beds" creates a sense of scorn the author feels toward their desperate attempt to find love. which subsequently develops the speaker's own feeling of superiority to this concept. He further asserts that all are "trapped" by fate-yet another word which gives humans an animalistic quality and detaches their sense of humanity. [explain how the speaker sees himself as different from the others and therefore creates his theme]. Paout style ach intral word it is trong is oven i in a let words.
: "city dumps”, “jump yards," madhouses."
Be sure to discuss the piece in terms of what the author is doing.
• Brooks indicates...
Bukowski chooses…
: Bulowski helps us see…
You will know that you are analyzing if your analysis begins with uses verbs such as the following..
The TE...
serves
shows
creates suggests
indicates reveals. Here is the poem I chose and what the tone words I chose relate to. Your writing should be 2 paragraphs, an introduction and first body. USE THE TONE WORDS acrimonious, gloomy, hopelessness, and fatalistic: A Litany for Survival
BY AUDRE LORDE
For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children’s mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours;
 
For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother’s milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us

this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.
 
And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
 
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.