The Hound & Bereft

Bereft
1. Describe the situation precisely. What time of day and year is it? Where is the speaker? What is happening to the Weather?
a. In this poem Bereft by Robert Frost, The speaker is describing the approach of a big storm and the effects that happens when this approaches. It must be dark so late afternoon and raining season. The weather is changing because of a storm as I said, and the speaker is in his house alone. Someone has just died that’s why this speaker is realizing the world is dark and lonely place.
The Hound
• Read it through-Done
• Define any words you don’t know
o Equivocal-Uncertain or questionable by nature.
• Identify the speaker
o The Speaker is simply telling about how a dog can be friendly or mean you never know till he or she comes close enough to touch.
• Identify the situation
o What’s happening-The speaker is describing what is happening when the dog is coming closer to him.
o When is this happening-sometime during the day.
o When is this happening-“” “”” “””” “””
o Where is this happening- in a house.
• Identify the tone of the poem
o How the poem makes you feel
• Happy and nervous for the speaker, what is going to happen?
o The Speaker and how or what he gives to you.
• Uncertainty, you don’t know what will happen.
• Identify important words or phrases
o Equivocal- Uncertain, the speaker is uncertain what the dog will do.
• Breakdown the words
o Musicality- sound- feeling
o Denotation- definition(s)
o Connotation- what the word implies
• Name the theme of the poem
• The theme is life is uncertain and doesn’t hold your plans instead makes plans of its own.
o NOT THE MORALE
o Usually implied in the poem
• Or the purpose of the poem
• How does the author achieve this affect
o By using a main literary device, metaphors.