Blue Bowl by Jane Kenyon

1. Personal Connection to Theme

2. Universality of Theme

3. Why poetry?

4. Evidence

4.1. Word choice

4.1.1. -list of day to day tasks

4.2. Imagery

4.2.1. -primitive burial

4.2.1.1. -robin

4.3. Sound

4.3.1. -internal rhyme, lots of internal rhyme: bowl, hole, toes, noes.  "Oh" sound is significant.

4.4. Structure

4.4.1. -shift in the middle out of story of poem

5. Meaning

5.1. Surface

5.1.1. This is a poem about burying a beloved pet and feeling sad.

5.2. Deeper

5.2.1. This poem is really about the feelings we all experience and we try to cope with loss.