Blurry Cow

Analayize- Blurry Cow
Blurry Cow Breakdown

• Read it through- Done
• Define any words you don’t know
o Loping-run or move with a bounding stride.
• Identify the speaker- the speaker is someone who is observing two cows and what they are doing.
• Identify the situation
o What’s happening-two cows are eating in a field.
o When is this happening- during the day
o Where is this happening- a farm somewhere
• Identify the tone of the poem
o How the poem makes you feel- this poem makes me feel as if any ordinary thing can be beautiful.
o The Speaker and how or what he gives to you.
• Identify important words or phrases- ‘the afterimage of this day on earth.’
• Breakdown the words
o Musicality- sound- feeling- the musicality of the words makes it sound happy and as if it is beautiful
o Denotation- definition(s)
o Connotation- what the word implies
• Name the theme of the poem
• The theme of this poem is beautifulness anything can be beautiful, you just have to look at it in a different way.
o NOT THE MORALE
o Usually implied in the poem
• Or the purpose of the poem- the purpose of this poem is to inform you that what ever you see last on this earth is beautiful no matter what.
• How does the author achieve this affect- the author achieves this affect by taking two ordinary simple everyday animals and breaks down what they do, “One stamps at the hot sting of a deerfly.”