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Title: Analyzing Poetry
Description: 1st year beginner of a basic approach to critically analyzing poetry for literature studies
Description: 1st year beginner of a basic approach to critically analyzing poetry for literature studies
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Turning Points in Literature (week 2)
Critical reading gives us a richer understanding of the text, its meanings, its
aesthetic, cultural, historical and social significance and impact
Literary genres, different kinds of language and style
Produce specific meanings and effects
Constantly ask questions (even if stupid)
Big picture, then detailed analysis
Make connections between – form and content
- Ideas, themes within the text
- Patterns (of similarity, contrast, repetition)
- The text and the social and historical contexts in which it has been produced,
circulated and (at different times) read
Identify points that resist meaning, don’t seem to fit or are incongruous or
ambiguous
We are becoming too literal (poetry is meant to be emotional before literal)
Key terms from poetry analysis
-poetic persona, poetic voice
-versification
-rhyme (partial/incomplete), rhythm and meter
-metaphor
-image
-symbol
-unstressed (U)/stressed syllable (--)
-iambic pentameter (U --)
Title: Analyzing Poetry
Description: 1st year beginner of a basic approach to critically analyzing poetry for literature studies
Description: 1st year beginner of a basic approach to critically analyzing poetry for literature studies