1997 Poem: “The Death of a Toad” (Richard Wilbur)
Prompt: Read the following poem carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you explain how formal elements such as structure, syntax, diction, and imagery reveal the speaker’s response to the death of a toad.
Prewrite: Response to Death of a Toad:
Syntax and Diction: By using the words sanctuaried and using the phrase as still as stone you know that the toad will die.
Structure: The poem is laid out in the steps of the death of a toad
Imagery: Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobbling hop has got,In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes. He lies As still as if he would return to stone,And soundlessly attending, dies
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