The Walrus and the Carpenter

Worksheet Description

This worksheet focuses on the concept of personification as used in poetry, using verses from the poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll as an example. It provides students with specific lines from the poem and asks them to read them and respond to two questions based on the text. The first question requires students to identify what is being personified in the poem, while the second asks them to describe the human characteristics attributed to the personified object.

The purpose of the worksheet is to teach students how to recognize and interpret personification in literature. By using a well-known poem, it engages students with classic literary work and illustrates how personification can bring vividness and emotional depth to writing. It encourages students to analyze the text and understand how giving human traits to non-human entities affects the meaning and tone of the poem. This exercise helps students to develop both their literary analysis skills and their appreciation for poetic devices.