Poem Analysis by Sean Hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis Prints by Joseph Bruchac en-us 2017-11-17 00:32:29 UTC 2017-11-21 01:21:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Prints By Joseph Bruchac sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207948941
Seeing photos
of ancestors
a century past

is like looking
at your own
fingerprints—

circles 
and lines
you can't 
recognize

until someone else
with a stranger's eye
looks close and says
that's you.

]]> 2017-11-17 00:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207948941 Authors Background sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949114 Birthdate:
October 16, 1942 
Born In:
Greenfield Center, New York
Interesting info:
Joseph got beat up in 2nd because some boys got jealous that the teacher read a poem of his.
]]> 2017-11-17 00:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949114 Vocabulary References Allusions sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949177 fingerprints -  the use of the image of finger prints brings along the connotation of a familiar experience with something so close to you that you
stranger's eye
]]> 2017-11-17 00:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949177 Denotation sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949316 Stanza 1: The speaker is looking at photos of his ancestors that lived a century ago.

Stanza 2: They compare the photos to looking at one's own fingerprints

Stanza 3: They describe fingerprints as circles and lines that a person cannot remember or discern permanently 

Stanza 4: Until someone who is a stranger looks closely at the picture and tells the speaker the person in the picture is you.

]]> 2017-11-17 00:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949316 Poetic Term #1 Sounds sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949441 Alliteration - Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

Example:
Seeing
century
...
someone
stranger
says
Effect on reader:
This causes a overarching poetic theme while increasing in frequency toward the end of the poem as dramatic and planned resolution.]]> 2017-11-17 00:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949441 Poetic Term #2 - Meanings sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949498 Metaphor - A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

Example: 
stranger's eye

Effect on reader: 
It makes you think about the meaning poem and puts a familiar expression and feeling into more interesting terms. By saying stranger's eye it highlights the strangers' eye as the only part of the stranger that matters in the context of the poem. Stranger also causes contemplation of why a stranger to the speaker would know the speaker better then they do this may be highlighting the lack of retrospection in our society.
]]> 2017-11-17 00:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949498 Poetic Term #3 Arranging of Words sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949752 Stanza Forms -  In poetry, a stanza is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme. Stanzas in poetry are similar to paragraphs in prose.

Example:  This quatrain uses its stanzas to outline the narrative into slightly distinctive parts.

Effect: The effect of this structuring but also building up to a conclusion. The structure mirrors the message of the substance by providing vague dialog until a context reveals a bigger meaning.]]> 2017-11-17 00:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949752 Voice sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949813 This poem is in 2nd person to tell the reader an antidote that can show depth and be an avenue for describing a common unanalyzed event. The poem follows a linear narrative but splits the short story ]]> 2017-11-17 00:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207949813 Connotation sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207950093 Stanza 1: The speaker reminisces about photos we don't completly understand this could be eluding to the generational gap and memory in general, our past selves totally forgotten.

Stanza 2: These memories are compared to fingerprints because they are forgotten out of misuse and complex almost familiar but undistinctive.

Stanza 3: Even more defamiliarizing these photos instead of fingerprints they are compared to simple lines and circles analyzing that the more something is broken down and taken out of context it becomes more confusing.

Stanza 4: The stranger gives context the unfamiliar face in the photos by simply saying "that's you". This allows the speaker to
]]> 2017-11-17 00:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207950093 Sources sean_hershey https://padlet.com/sean_hershey/poemanalysis/wish/207951225 "Joseph Bruchac." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, 2017. Web. 17 Nov. 2017.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joseph-bruchac

"Joseph Bruchac | Scholastic." Scholastic.com. Bruchac, 2017. Web. 17 Nov. 2017.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/joseph-bruchac/


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