Assignment:  "Ex-Basketball Player" 1. Summarize and write a theme for the poem. 2. Give an example of a simile, metaphor, and personification in the poem and clearly state which is which. 3. In the last stanza, what is the candy compared to, and who sees it that way? 4. Think of a key image from the poem. Why did you visualize the image? What does the image mean to you? 5. Do you like the poem? Why? 6.What does the poem say about life?​