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Any metaphors?
Similes?
Reading 3
• What kinds of questions do I ask?
• Remember, everything in poetry is done for a purpose, so you
have to be constantly asking “WHY?” and “WHAT?”
• Why did he say this?
• What is this supposed to mean?
• What does this represent?
• What is the overall point?
Reading 3
When a song is
over, you still Music, when soft voices die,
remember it the Vibrates in the memory;
sound When a smell is
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
gone, you can
Live within the sense they quicken. still remember
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, the scent
Are heap'd for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
When a rose dies the Love itself shall slumber on.
petals can be used on
the bed(coffin). You
remember the love And when you (my love) die,
that the rose and your thoughts are gone,
A big part of
represents. analyzing poetry is my love for you will live on,
I don’t actually know this, realizing that there and be a remembrance of
but it makes sense, think isn’t a right or wrong, you
of how people spread it’s all about saying
flower petals now as a your opinion and
romantic thing, dead telling why it’s right.
petals are the opposite of If you think it’s right,
then it can be!
that.
Descriptive Language
• One important thing to think about when analyzing poetry is
the descriptive language.
• Picking particular adjectives and adverbs make a huge
difference in the meaning of the poem
Insert your own adjectives
Using this simple poetic stanza, put in whatever
descriptive words to have it make sense.
The sun rises and I have _________ thoughts.
My eyes ________ open, the ______ inside me
growing.
________, I step towards the day, knowing
I am _______, I am ________, that’s what this day has
brought.
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In his poem “Music” author Percy Bysshe Shelly connects the sound of music to
the loss of a great love. Throughout the poem he uses rhyming couplets to connect
lines of ideas to finally come to his conclusion that love, much like things felt by
the other senses, is a part of our memory and as long as we keep it a part of us, it
can’t fade away. He talks about how we remember the sound of beautiful music,
how we remember the scent of flowers, and how the same flowers can show us
love and death together. Finally, he concludes that just like the scent of the flower,
the feelings of love he has can never be lost as long as he remembers them vividly
in his heart.
Note: I don’t say “I think” or “I feel,” I don’t even have to say anything
about the fact that it is my opinion. My interpretation of what Shelley is
saying shows my opinion. You just state your interpretation as if it’s the
only one there could be. If you were to read this, without knowing I
wrote it, you might think that this was TRUE, but really it’s just MY
educated analysis. Everyone is capable of doing the same thing…with a
little practice of course