Activity page 14

Practical criticism

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
A fish hook
An open eye

Questions to the text:

1. What is the relationship between the title and the rest of the poem?

2. What words, if any, need to be defined (for example, are you familiar with a hook-and-eye clasping system in clothing?

3. What relationships do you see among any words in the poem?

4. What are the various connotative meanings of the words in the poem? Do these various shades of meaning help establish relationships or patterns in the text?

5. What symbols, images or figures of speech are used? What is the relationship between them?

6. What elements of rhyme, meter or pattern can you discuss?

7. What is the tone of the poem?

8. From what point of view is the content of the poem being told?

9. What tensions, amibiguities or paradoxes arise within the poem?

10. What do you believe the chief paradox or irony is in the text?

11. How do all the elements of the poem support and develop the primary paradox or irony?

1. The title is saying the general idea of the text, also the title is the same as the first verse of the poem, and the rest is a comparison of the verse "You fit in to me".

2. I understood all the poem with any help

3. The relationship between the hook and the eye (the way it fits)

4. The words eye and hook change will the poem advances in their meaning.

5. I can see comparisons (in the way it fits), also hyperboly and irony.

6. The poem doesn´t have any rhyme pattern.

7. In my point of view it could be love or melancholy.

8. The narrator is saying that someone belongs to him/her but doesn´t mention any other external element.

9. The words "Hook and Eye" change their meanings as the poem advances, a clear case of ambiguity. The other elements can be placed in the comparison between a hook and an eye and feelings.

10. Express the feeling of love by an eye and a hook.

11. The irony and paradox are present within the poem advances and changes it meaning.