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Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis. One way out of a million… . What’s it all about?. THEME What is the Big Issue of life that the author is addressing? What is his or her specific statement about this issue? To find the theme, dissect the fiction and/or poetic elements the author uses… .

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Poetry Analysis

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  1. Poetry Analysis One way out of a million…

  2. What’s it all about? • THEME • What is the Big Issue of life that the author is addressing? • What is his or her specific statement about this issue? • To find the theme, dissect the fiction and/or poetic elements the author uses…

  3. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  4. Fiction elements: • Character: what are the major facets of a certain character?: actions, speech, physical appearance, name, reactions of other characters to the character • Setting: how does the location affect the story?: regional influences, historical aspect, props, probability, topographical features • Symbolism: what are the significant props or repeated images and ideas?: function for the characters (secondary function), function in the larger world (usual function), color, actions or occurrences surrounding

  5. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  6. Fiction elements: • Point of View: who is telling the story and why?; 1st, 2nd, 3rdperson, major/minor/innocent eyes, shifts in POV • Tone: why are these specific words chosen and how are they used?; overall mood, connotation and denotation, repetition, dialect • Structure: what particular parts and pieces is the story assembled from and why?; chapters/acts/stanzas – how do these pieces compare? • Plot: what are the driving forces of the story; conflicts, character motivations, forces impacting the result

  7. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  8. Poetic devices: • Rhythm/Meter: patterns of syllables and emphasis • Iambic: one unstressed followed by one stressed syllable • Trochaic: one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable • Anapestic: two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable • Dactylic: one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables • Meter: number of stressed/unstressed sets in a line • Therefore, iambic pentameter = 5 sets of unstressed then stressed syllables per line

  9. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  10. Poetic devices: • Sound: patterns of repeated sounds or words with unusual sounds • Rhyme • Alliteration • Assonance • Consonance • Onomatopoeia

  11. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  12. Poetic devices: • Figures of Speech: comparing two unlike things • Simile • Metaphor • Apostrophe • Metonymy: substituting the name of something for another thing to which it has some relationship (“I am reading Joyce) • Synecdoche: using an essential part of something to represent the whole (“this rhyme” to refer to a whole poem or song)

  13. Poem for Sample AnalysisEmily Dickinson • I’m Nobody! Who are you? • Are you – Nobody – too? • Then there’s a pair of us! • Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know! • How dreary – to be – Somebody! • How public – like a Frog – • To tell your name – the livelong June – • To an admiring Bog!

  14. Poetic devices: • Personification • Imagery- description using the five senses • Capitalization- calling attention to specific words • Shape- words shaped on a page

  15. So What? • Read to figure out the SO WHAT of the figurative language and the poem as a whole (synthesize). • What does the poet “mean” by these words?

  16. Annotating all the while…. Background Knowledge Literary Terms Overview Theme Understanding/Interpretation

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