When You Died

1. When You Died By: Mackenzie, Rayni, and Cooper

2. T- Title. • Well, since the title is ‘When You Died’ I would assume the poem would be about someone who died. • The speaker may be sad or depressed that this person died. • The author dedicates this poem to X. Duma, who could have been someone who the author loved or cared about.

3. P- Paraphrase. • When you died, my life because a horrible despair. Everyone missed you. Life was a sad, endless pit of loneliness. When you died, life became boring and characterless.

4. C-Connotation. • In the poem it says when you died the children's giggles stopped. The children's giggles didn’t physically stop. The author was just so sad, they felt like they disappeared. • Along with the coffee turning cold. The coffee wasn’t actually cold. The author just didn’t care about anything that small anymore.

5. A- Attitude. • The authors attitude I think is very serious, but also very depressing at the same time. • The speaker has more of a noticeable tone from the way it is written. • If the sentences were longer or more descriptive, it would have not as deep a tone or feeling. • Because they’re short and tedious you’re only getting how the speaker deeply feels, not all the rest.

6. S- Shift. • I don’t think the speakers attitude changes much over the poem. • Considering the poem is about someone who the author loved being dead, the speaker has a very doleful tone and attitude.

7. T-title • The author or speaker is still grieving about their loss. • Our perspective about the title did not change, what we guessed actually came true.

8. T- Theme. • We think the theme of this poem was “be grateful of what you have today, because it could be gone tomorrow.” or maybe “you never know what you have until it is gone.”

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