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Poetry Mood, Repetition, turning point, and objective summary

Close your eyes and envision what it would look like or feel like to be in an excited and energized mood. Write down your answers.

Close your eyes and visualize what a depressed or sad mood may look or feel like. Write your answers down

One Way Ticket by Langston Hughes 1949

I pick up my life And take it with me And I put it down in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Scranton, Any place that is North and East And not Dixie. I pick up my life And take it on the train To Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Seattle, Oakland, Salt Lake, Any place that is North and West But not South. I am fed up With Jim Crow Laws, People who are cruel

And afraid. Who lynch and run, Who are scared of me And me of them. I pick up my life And take it away On a one-way ticket Gone up North, Gone out West, Gone! What kind of MOOD does this poem have?

What feeling do you get when you read it? Why (text evidence)

What is the turning point of the poem (what line)? Explain what happens in this Stanza

What is the repetition in this poem? How does affect the mood of the poem?

Write an Objective summary of this poem (Pick out the theme.This is a story about..)