Intro to Poetry

• What is the significance of the title?  To work together to make a difference 
• What is the tone of the poem? Uplifting 
• What is your mood as you read it? Inspiration 
• Is there a Shift?  Where?  From what to what? No 
• What is the theme of the poem?  To work together for a common goal 

Thinking about these questions has got me to think about how to analyze poetry because I don't really get poetry. I understood the poem more because I actually get the deeper meaning. 

Working Together
by David Whyte

We shape our self
to fit this world

and by the world
are shaped again.

The visible
and the invisible

working together
in common cause,

to produce 
the miraculous.

I am thinking of the way
the intangible air

passed at speed
round a shaped wing

easily
holds our weight.

So may we, in this life
trust

to those elements
we have yet to see

or imagine,
and look for the true

shape of our own self,
by forming it well

to the great 
intangibles about us.