Marisa Sitz Poetry Analysis Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop TPFASTT

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A story about an important conversation, maybe a life-changing one, with a bishop? Maybe Crazy Jane became a Christian?

Anticipate Meaning. Questions?

PARAPHRASE

Whats it about? One-two sentences.

The Bishop and I met in the road, and we had a lot to say to one another. You are getting old and along in years; go live in a large, fancy house, not in some lowly place. Good things and bad things are both nearby, and one needs the other, I said. My friends all left, and thats the truth, nothing can deny it. I learned this because I am unworthy and too proud. When a girl loves, she can be proud and tough; but love is not there. Nothing is perfect that has not been broken. Body imagery: breasts veins bodily hearts pride The body imagery illustrates the frailness of humanity and how it can be easily broken. Alliteration of f The alliteration of f in stanza two emphasizes the idea that good and bad travel together and cannot live without each other and the importance of friends. The speaker is hysterical about the idea that good and bad are linked. The author is emphasizing the importance of realizing that nothing is whole or good.

FIGURATIVE DEVICES

Look beyond the literal at figurative and sound devices. How affect meaning/ feeling?

ATTITUDE

Analyze narrators and poets attitude (tone.)

SHIFTS

Note shifts in tone, subject, speaker, situation, diction.

Stanza 1: The speaker goes from describing to directly talking about her thoughts. Stanza 3, line 3: The speaker goes from describing a situation to revealing the key flaw in the plan and idea. Love does not live where it should live.

TITLE
Re-think the meaning of the title.

Crazy Jane is questioning the friendship and companionship of bad and good things, and how nothing can be perfect.

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THEME

Nothing can be completely whole and perfect because there can be no good without bad and no bad without good. If there is no good, What is the poem saying? What how can we know what bad is? If there is no bad, how can we know is what good is?
message?

What is the occasion? Crazy Jane has stopped in the road to speak with the Bishop of a church. Who is the speaker? The speaker is Crazy Jane, wondering how good and bad can be together. What is the meaning? The poem brings up the question of how two completely different ends of a sphere cannot survive or even be without the other. How does the author get the meaning across? Yeats uses the alliteration in the f in the first two stanzas to emphasize the juxtaposition of good and bad, fair and foul. He also uses body imagery to relate the idea that they must coincide together to humanity and the human body is filled with different things and ideas.

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