Discuss how a PART of the poem (word, image, phrase, line, or stanza) plays a role in creating the WHOLE poem. Be sure to talk about HOW the part develops the larger IDEA/MEANING of the poem. Use everything you know about close reading and analyzing literature as you show your thinking and support it.
To Look at Anything
John Moffitt
To look at anything,
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
“I have seen spring in these
Woods,” will not do – you must
Be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of
Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves,
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.Rubric
Two grades - one for ideas, one for use of evidence
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