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    How To Analyze A Poem

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    This document provides guidance on how to analyze a poem by considering several key elements: 1) The title can provide clues to the main theme of the poem. 2) Knowing when the poem was written provides historical context. 3) Understanding details about the poet's life experiences can aid interpretation. 4) Identifying common literary devices like metaphor, simile, and rhyme is important. 5) Analyzing the poem's structure, language, and how well it conveys the intended effect and represents its genre.

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    This document provides guidance on how to analyze a poem by considering several key elements: 1) The title can provide clues to the main theme of the poem. 2) Knowing when the poem was written provides historical context. 3) Understanding details about the poet's life experiences can aid interpretation. 4) Identifying common literary devices like metaphor, simile, and rhyme is important. 5) Analyzing the poem's structure, language, and how well it conveys the intended effect and represents its genre.

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    This document provides guidance on how to analyze a poem by considering several key elements: 1) The title can provide clues to the main theme of the poem. 2) Knowing when the poem was written provides historical context. 3) Understanding details about the poet's life experiences can aid interpretation. 4) Identifying common literary devices like metaphor, simile, and rhyme is important. 5) Analyzing the poem's structure, language, and how well it conveys the intended effect and represents its genre.

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    How to Analyze a Poem

    Like literature Poems deal with typical themes such as love, loss,
    nature, deception, memories of long forgotten places etc.
    Its always best to start with the Title, even if you have never studied
    or seen a poem there are a lot of informed guesses you can make from a
    poem in front of you. If nothing else, it should give you an idea about the
    main theme of the poem
    When was it written?
    If it was written in the 18th century for example, then you might
    have some idea about events from that time or know a little of the
    culture. At that time America was just establishing itself as an
    independent nation, psychology was beginning to become popular.
    Liberal Arts and modernist painting were in their infancy. This is
    important because it signaled a shift in attitude in Society. Old ideas
    about the world was were replaced with new ideas
    Knowing something about the Poet.
    Poems are a very personal expression of feelings and quite often
    they reflect the personal experience of the poet so if you know a little
    about the poet then it can help you understand their poems.
    Literary devices
    There are a few literary devices that are used often: metaphor,
    simile, onomatopoeia and rhyming couplets. If you learn what these are
    you can make an intelligent stab at identifying them in a poem.
    In the same way you would respond to a literary question you can
    use the same structure for a poem.
    Introduction, here you can give a brief outline of the plot of the
    poems you are going to write about.
    You need to say something about the structure and form of the
    poem.
    How does the poet create the desired effect through language and style?
    How well does he succeed?
    How does the poem reflect the conventions of the type of poetry it
    represents?
    Romanticism grew out of the idea that life should be expressed
    through the human mind to create a sense of meaning in terms of human
    emotion rather than logic. It was a reaction against logic and reason, or
    intellectualism. It was seen as new way of expressing the human form,
    popular in the 18th century. There were many artistic forms that
    expressed the principles of Romanticism but today it is perhaps, best
    remembered, through the poems of writers such as Wordsworth,
    Coleridge, and Shelly.
    The Romanticism movement was a literary and artistic movement
    that wanted to express a shift in attitude because of all the changes that
    were happening in society including the industrial revolution.
    Wordsworth famous poems: Tintern Abbey and I Wandered Lonely as a
    Cloud are both examples of Romantic poems that perfectly describe the
    values that Wordsworth was trying to express.
    Woodsworth’s poems are more an expression of memories of his
    experiences in nature while out walking or staying in the countryside
    while a poet such as Coleridge focused more on the superiority of nature
    and how humans were subject to the forces of nature and its power.
    You have a lot to get through for this exam, too much to study
    everything in detail.
    I imagine you will get extracts from the texts and copies of the poem for
    your exam. I think the best tactic is to learn about main topics in general
    terms such as what tragic heroes are and how are they represented in
    literature. What are the main features of Romantism poetry, Modernism
    and Post Modernism? Etc, etc.

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