Poetry Question
For many poetry is by far the most difficult of the three types of essays found on the AP Exam. However using the various rhetorical srtategies and the TP-CASTT, you can successfully navigate any but the most convoluted of poems.
Read the following poem and write a composition in which you (1) explain the generalization or comment the poem makes about love, marriage, or relationships and (2) explain, through effective use of evidence from the poem, the reasons for your interpretation of the poem's meaning.
In the Metro
(subway)
I know: I'll never meet again
the girl I met the other day,
the girl with shining legs in the metro.
I know: she goes her way
And I go mine...and yet
I'm sad, though I don't know why.
The escalator carried her away
just as river-a flower to the sea,
while I, crucified to family duties,
stood, transfixed,
on the platform
with a shopping bag dangling from my hand...
Mikhail Kvlividze