ANALYSIS

Author Maya Angelou,

is an author, poet, playwright, stage and
screen performer, and director

Woman Work
Title of the Poem - the struggles and hardships of a women

The speaker of the poem is hardworking and

The Persona and the Addressee probably a single mother. Readers also know
that she is poor because she mentions her hut,
the manual labor that she is forced to do, and
that nature is the only thing she owns.

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions Celebratory, proud, and confident. Female
Empowerment

Imagery and Symbolism Strength and beauty of a woman

Genre Feminism

Structure Rhyme Scheme

Theme Exhaustion, relentless, responsibility,

expectation, isolation, relief and loneliness

Appeal The poem came out to call out all the women
that they can be strong and be confident.
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Author Theodore Roethke,

is regarded as one of the most accomplished and
influential poets of his generation.

Title of the Poem My Papa’s Waltz

- it is about poet's childhood and features a boy who
loves his father, but is afraid of him.

Persona of an adult, mature thoughts and feelings are

The Persona and the Addressee displayed rather than childish ones.

Seeing through that illusion allows the reader to see the

abuse the speaker endured in his childhood.

Playful, carefree sort of atmosphere

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and light and frolicking poem,
Conditions darkness and uncertainty

Theodore has used imagery in this poem such as, “But I

hung on like death”, “Still clinging to your shirt” and
Imagery “My right ear scraped a buckle” to show how the boy
stayed with his father.

The main symbol is waltz. Waltz is dance involving

Symbolism interaction and interdependence between two people,
thus symbolizing the relationship between the father
and the son, as emotional and controversial as it is.

Genre Folk Ballad

Structure Regular, Full Rhyme Scheme (abab)

Theme Controversial issues such as family and relations

between family members, love, power and authority,
manliness, and arguably violence and fear.

The poem can be relatable because some parents

Appeal usually abuse their child, but some did that to protect
their young ones.
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Author Robert Frost,

he was an American poet.

Title of the Poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

The speaker is the rider. Robert Frost writes

The Persona and the Addressee the poem from a first person perspective of the
rider

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions The poem has a sad, melancholy or calm tone

Imagery and Symbolism Woods represents darkness

Birds and Birdsong, represent nature, and their

songs represent nature’s attitudes toward
humanity.

Solitary travelers, romanticism

Genre Nonfiction

Structure Rhyme (aaba bbcb ccdc dddd)

Theme Tracing the development of a solitary youth as

he explores and questions the world around
him.
Keeping promises, traveling miles

Appeal As I read the poem it is all about death, and

suicide
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Author Andres Bonifacio,

a Filipino revolutionary leader and the
president of the Tagalog Republic.
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Title of the Poem Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa

The speaker is the Filipinos.

The Persona and the Addressee

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions Determination

Imagery and Symbolism Land to represent the country, Philippines

Genre Non-fiction

Structure Rhyme Scheme (abcb deed fgfg)

Theme Love for the country

Appeal As a Filipino, his poem can be very

heartwarming and I can see the determination.
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Author Wilfred Owen,

he was an English poet and soldier.

Title of the Poem Dulce et Decorum est

The speaker is soldier who has experienced

The Persona and the Addressee shell, shock, as we would now call it, Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), after taking
part in trench warfare during World War I.

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions Bitter, atmospeher of war

Shudder and fright at the thought of war.

The allusion points to the idea that fighting and

Imagery and Symbolism dying for your country is glorious.

Owen presents the scenes of war as a

nightmare with their greenish color and
mistiness. Also, the terrifying imagery adds to
the feeling of a bad dream.

Genre War

Structure "Dulce et Decorum Est" might have started out

as a double sonnet (there are 28 lines in total)
and many lines are in iambic pentameter, with
end rhymes. Owen must have decided against
it as he worked on the draft, ending up with
four unequal stanzas.

Theme War Violence

Suffering, Patriotism

Appeal The poem suggests that it is not fund of war, it

criticizes the purpose of war.
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Author William Blake,

he was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

Title of the Poem The Tyger

The speaker is in awe of the fearsome qualities and

The Persona and the Addressee
raw beauty of the tiger, and he rhetorically wonders
whether the same creator could have also made "the
Lamb" (a reference to another of Blake's poems). He
wonders where such qualities come from and
meditates on the role of experience and knowledge
in creating powerful forces, including those that are
dangerous or evil.

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions Serious/aggressive and fearful tone

Shows negative attitude

Imagery Fire evokes the fierceness and potential danger of

the tiger, which represents evil or dreaded.
Blake has used imagery to show the unique creation
of God such as, “What immortal hand or eye,”,
“Burnt the fire of thine eyes?” and “In the forests of
the night.”

“The Tyger” represents the evil and beauty too, “the

Symbolism forest of the night” represents unknown challenges,
“the blacksmith” represents the creator and “the
fearful symmetry” symbolizes the existence of both
good and evil.
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Genre Romance

Structure Neat, regular structure with neat proportions

Rhyme (aabb)

Theme Creation and origin

The way the author describes an animal and relate it

Appeal to the existence of what is evil and good.
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Author Gerard Manley Hopkins

- he distinguished himself as a gifted
student and began to write Keatsian nature
poetry.

Title of the Poem Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins expresses through the

The Persona and the Addressee
awed voice of a speaker the allure that all
different creation has, and that beauty may lay
in the differences and variegated characteristics
of all things, rather than in the conforming
factors.

The tone gives voice to his praise of God and

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions all of the things that are part of the natural
world.

Hopkins has used images appealing to the

sense of sight such as, “For skies of couple-
Imagery and Symbolism colour as a brinded cow”, “Landscape plotted
and pieced” and “Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls;
finches’ wings”.

Genre Hymn

Special sonnet consisting of a sestet + quintain,

the last line of which is shortened. The rhyme
Structure scheme abcabcdbcdc neatly tightens up the
whole poem, the full end rhymes, all
monosyllabic, help bring a crisp finish.

Theme Religion
Briefness of nature and eternity of God

Appeal As a Catholic, this is very inspiring to read.

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Author John Donne

- He was an English poet and cleric in
the Church of England.

Title of the Poem Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

It is narrated by an anonymous first

The Persona and the Addressee person speaker. The speaker uses the personal
pronoun "me." The first person plural is
actually more common, occurring three times
in the poem (us, our, we).

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions The speaker's tone is almost belittling; his
purpose is to cut arrogant death down to size

Imagery and Symbolism The speaker treats death like a person who is
considered "mighty" and "dreadful," which is
personification.

Genre Religious Poetry, Devotional Poetry

Rhyme Scheme, in first, second and third

Structure quatrains the poem follows the ABBA r`qhyme
scheme, and in couplet the rhyme scheme is
AA.

Theme Powerlessness of Death

Appeal It is a poetry that tells us death is not

something to be proud of.
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Author Edgar Allan Poe

- he was an American writer, editor, and
literary critic. Poe

Title of the Poem Annabel Lee

The speaker is the lover of Annabel Lee. The

The Persona speaker seems to be engaging, charming, and
someone whom a girl would meet and fall in love
with right away. He is someone who would tell
stories. As readers move on reading the poem,
and the they start realizing that there is something wrong.

The readers begin to feel the speaker will return

Addressee to a particular subject, and would rage about
something bad that may have happened to him.

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions Sad and dark

Poe has used visual imagery to make the readers

Imagery and Symbolism imagine a cold and desolate place where he lives
with his beloved, “In a kingdom by the sea” and
“In her tomb by the sounding sea”.

“The sea” is the symbol of evil and darkness,

“moon” and “the stars” both symbolizes the
speaker’s lover and her stunning beauty.

Genre Gothic fiction/horror

Structure Rhyme (ababcb)

Love and death

Theme

It is something that we didn’t expect of. We can

Appeal think that this is romance, but as we read and read
more it is getting more thrilling.
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Author Matthew Arnold,

he is an English Victorian poet and literary and
social critic

Title of the Poem Dover Beach

The speaker in the poem is often equated with

The Persona and the Addressee
Matthew Arnold. Though the poet certainly shared
the speaker's concern with the loss of religious
faith, there isn't enough in the poem to say that the
speaker is Arnold, but it is fair to say that they at
the very least have plenty in common.

Tone, Attitude, Motifs, and Conditions The tone is set to show the value and possibilities
of a peaceful life.

Mournful towards the fact that faith in the world is

fading.

Imagery and Symbolism
Sea, still and calm, creating a sense of security that
the poem eventually undoes. But the speaker
begins to observe the sea more closely, and notices
that it is not as calm as it first seemed. The sea is a
symbol for speaker's own inner thoughts.

Genre Lyric Poem

Rhyme Scheme is erratic and unpredictable. It

Structure can't quite be said that there isn't a rhyme
scheme—lines certainly do rhyme strongly—but
they don't settle into an overall pattern.

Theme Loss of Faith and Certainty

Nature and Alienation
Love

Appeal It is something uncomfortable, when there is

something about loss of faith.