WRITE A TWO PARAGRAPH ANALYSIS OF THE POEM ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ BY EDWARD BAUGH. The Poem will be below PARAGRAPH 1
What is the speaker talking about? This is the meaning of the poem.
Who is the speaker? how do you know?
How is the poem structured?

PARAGRAPH 2
What are two real life issues
(themes) the write communicates in the poem?
What message do you take from the
poem about the real life issues you identified in 4 above?

Responsibility
I Half awaken
to the comforting blur of my mother
pulling on her house-
dress in the half dark

5 and already the sound of my father
as from muted dream distance
clucking the chicken corn.

I too some distant morning
shall rise responsibly
to set my house in motion

Meantime, I pull the covers close
and smile for the pure secret
thrill of it, and ease myself down
into that last, sweet, morning sleep,
Edward Baugh