INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

SASTRA INGGRIS - UNESA

How to read poetry

Don't You are not going to

understand it the
Panic first time you read it.

Read Think what it might

The Title be about

Read
Read it through without
stopping to get a

The Poet
general understanding
of the poet.

Anno
underline or highlight or
write comments parts of

tate
the poem that might
seem confusing, that
you understand, or what
might be important

Look The word that you don't

know and use the

Up!
dictionary to look for
the meaning

Iden
the narrator or anything
about the narrator and

tify
what they want us to
learn

Noted
any changes or shifts in
the poem. ie
"however..." "but..."
words after are usually
the point of the poem

Struc Note the

structure/rhyme

ture
scheme.

Read
After you have
completed all of the

again
steps to understand
the poem, read it one
more time.
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