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These are notes on poetry telling what type of poetry and the directions of poetry
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● What do you know about the poet? ● What was going on in the poet's life and/ or the world when this poem was written? ● Is the title line in the poem? ● What does it highlight? ● ● Are the speaker and teh poest the sm ●
● Go stanza by stanza ● What is the “story” of the poem?
● What big ideas/images stand out?
● What poetic devices are used? ● What figures of language is used ● Which are most frequent ● Which are most powerful
● Are there spots where the poem turns or shifts ● What is the tone(the poet’s attitude toward the subject matter) at the beginning? At the end?
● Why did the poet write this poem? ● What should the reader learn from the poem? ● What are the big universal ideas addressed? Poetry vocab Enjambment- the running over of a sentence or a phrase from one poetic line to the next Ex: “ I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” Juxtaposition- showing contrast by concepts placed side by side Ex: Tiresias, the blind prophet in Antigone Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used to refer to a whole Ex: “ the caption commands one hundred sails.”
