Thursday, May 7, 2015

What are some tips for analyzing a poem?

is
carefully selected words that are designed to evoke an emotion.  Poetry is different from prose,
or normal novel and short story writing, because it has a specific rhythm created by how the
words are put together into lines and stanzas.

The first thing you should do
when analyzing a poem is read it to yourself.  You can read it in your head and then out loud. 
This will help you get familiar with the language.  You can also take notice of the form.  Is
the poem a sonnet, a ballad, or a?  Count the number of stanzas and lines.  You can...


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