Abandoned Farmhouse

Explore Ted Kooser's 'Abandoned Farmhouse' poem! Identify poetic devices and tone.

Abandoned Farmhouse by Ted Kooser "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser Poetic Structures: Sort the examples from the poem into their correct columns: Simile And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yardlike branches after a storm- Alliteration good, God fearing man (line 4) still-sealed...say she (lines 19 Personification says the length of the bed say the fieldscluttered with boulders and the leaky barn. Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves Stones in the fieldssay he was not a farmer; Part A: What is the tone of the poem? Hopeful Lonely Inspired Confused Part B: Which words from the poem support your answer to Part A? doll, cow, tractor woman, lilac, kitchen broken, choked, nervous man, woman, child What is this an example of?...on the floor below the window, dusty with sun; alliteration internal rhyme imagery personification Say What? Match the clue to the what it says about the abandoned farmhouse: The sandbox made from a tire. They weren't rich and they had a child. The bedroom wallpaper. The man had a wife. The weed-choked yard. They have not been there for a while. The jar of food in the cellar. They didn't have a lot of money, so they made their own food. The cluttered fields and leaky barn. He wasn't a very successful farmer. The big shoes. He was a big man. The well-worn Bible. He believed in God.