ANALYZING POETRY ENGLISH IIIMS. CLZIANOSKI

LESSON OBJECTIVES• Take notes to read and comprehend language of textbooks• Identify and analyze theme and sound devices• Understand and analyze form of poetry• Apply TP-CASTT model for analyzing poetry

THE STRUCTURE OF POETRY• FORM: In poetry, this refers to the distinctive ways that the words are arranged on the page.

• GRAPHIC ELEMENTS: The poem’s length and placement of lines.

• STANZAS: Similar to a paragraph, each stanza conveys a unified idea and contributes to a poem’s overall meaning.

FORM

POETIC ELEMENTS• PROSODY/PROSE: The meter and rhythm of a poem, as well as other sound devices and imagery.• RHYTHM: The power of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.• METER: The pattern of rhythm.• RHYME SCEME: A regular pattern of rhyme; rhyme scheme is charted by assigning a letter of the alphabet to matching end rhymes.

POETIC ELEMENTS• CATALOGGING: Creating long lists for poetic or rhetorical effect.• IMAGERY: the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things.• FREE VERSE: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.• INFERENCE: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

POETIC ELEMENTS• THEME: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

• UNIVERSAL THEME: When a theme is relatable by a wide range of readers.

• TONE: how the author feels about the text.

• MOOD: how you feel about the text.

POETIC ELEMENTS• AUTHOR’S STYLE: Writing style refers to the manner in which an author chooses to write to his or her readers. A style reveals both the writer's personality and voice, but it also shows how he or she perceives the audience. The choice of a conceptual writing style molds the overall character of the work. •AUTHOR’S PURPOSE: the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. Then, once a topic is selected, the author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain his ideas to the reader.

OTHER SOUND DEVICES

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN POETRY

TP-CASTT FOR ANALYZING POETRY TitleParaphraseConnotationAttitude/toneShiftsTitleTheme

TITLE

Consider the title and make a prediction about what the

poem is about.

PARAPHRASE Translate the poem line by line into

your own words on a literal level.Look for complete thoughts

(sentences may be inverted) and look up unfamiliar words.

CONNOTATION

Examine the poem for meaning beyond the literal.

Look for figurative language, imagery, and sound

elements.

ATTITUDE/TONE Notice the speaker’s tone and

attitude.Humor? Sarcasm? Awe?

SHIFTS

Note any shifts or changes in speaker or attitude. Look for key words, time change, and

punctuation.

TITLE

Examine the title again, this time on an interpretative

level. What does the title have to do with the content of the

poem?

THEME Briefly state in your own words what the poem is

about (subject), then what the poet is saying about the

subject (theme).