3.05 Poetry Slam

Depression:

You battle yourself

It’s like a wet blanket smothered over your personality

You must win or else

Your old soul would be put to rest

Feeling down and suppressed

You only have one emotion you feel constantly

As your new emotionless soul looks down on your grave smirking with it’s own self-interest

To destroy you internally and externally

When you can no longer hide the damage you have to confess

That even, as hopeless as you feel, you still have a fighting chance

Slim as it may be, should you fight it nonetheless?

Paste your 10+ line poem below.

Highlight three poetic devices in red.

Highlight the rhyme scheme in blue and mark the pattern letters.

Highlight two instances of strong imagery in pink.

TOASTT graphic organizer-

Step 1: Title

Details: Depression

Annotation: The poem is a description about how it feels once depression wins and whether you can fight it or not

Step 2: Own Words

Details: All the Lines of the Poem

Annotation: Lines 1/2- Talk about how it feels. Lines 3/4- Talk about fighting it. Lines 5/6- Tell you how it affects you. Lines 7/8- Talk about how it destroys you from the inside out in a figurative way. Lines 9/11- Even after all the damages, do you have the strength to try to fight it, even though you just want to lay down in your bed and want to be alone

Step 3- Analyze Poetic Devices

Details- Poem uses: Hyperbole/ Personification/ Simile

Annotation- I use simile by explaining what it feels like to have depression and what it does to your personality: "It’s like a wet blanket smothered over your personality". I use hyperbole by saying that you die inside and you are not yourself anymore: "Your old soul would be put to rest". I use personification by saying that you are replaced by a dark entity that smiles at your grave: "As your new emotionless soul looks down on your grave smirking with it’s own self-interest".

Step 4- Shift

Details- Battling to Defeating and seeing if you can continue fighting

Annotations- I talking about a battle brewing inside and when you lose and you are tucked away far away where no one can find you and you are damaged inside and out are you going to fight or sit back and let it destroy you completely.

Step 5- Tone

Details- Sad

Annotations- I use words like suppressed, emotionless, hopeless, grave, and destroy so the tone can stay the same throughout the entire poem.

Step 6- Theme

Details- Sad/ empty/ lost/ struggle

Annotations- " You battle yourself"

Summary-

Depression by Versailles Clark is a poem of what it feels like to have it and how it affects if you let it consume you.A step by step of how the poem unfolds would be lines 1/2- Talk about how it feels. Lines 3/4- Talk about fighting it. Lines 5/6- Tell you how it affects you. Lines 7/8- Talk about how it destroys you from the inside out in a figurative way. Lines 9/11- Even after all the damages, do you have the strength to try to fight it, even though you just want to lay down in your bed and want to be alone. Through out the poem the tone and theme stay the same: ominous. About this dark entity take over you and if you are strong enough to fight back. I use simile by explaining what it feels like to have depression and what it does to your personality: "It’s like a wet blanket smothered over your personality". I use hyperbole by saying that you die inside and you are not yourself anymore: "Your old soul would be put to rest". I use personification by saying that you are replaced by a dark entity that smiles at your grave: "As your new emotionless soul looks down on your grave smirking with it’s own self-interest". There is a shift in the poem. I talking about a battle brewing inside and when you lose and you are tucked away far away where no one can find you and you are damaged inside and out are you going to fight or sit back and let it destroy you completely.