Friday, June 5, 2020

Poetry Analysis Unboxing Topics and Outlines in a breeze

Poetry Analysis: Unboxing Topics and Outlines in a breeze It seems that reading and analyzing poetry is something like transcribing old languages? I feel you, but don’t you worry, after reading this post you will learn to speak those languages! What is the purpose of Poetry Analysis? So, to put this into simple words, we can compare a reader who analyzes a poem to a mechanic who takes apart a car to figure out how its mechanisms work. So, a reader investigates a poem’s structure, form, content, semiotics, and history behind its writing to have a better understanding of this work of art and to help others understand and appreciate it better too. Why write these papers? Poetry itself can have many different forms hence there are different reasons for undertaking a poetry analysis. A reader may analyze a poem to gain a better understanding of author’s thoughts and see what this work had to offer or dive into the context to know how to communicate what he/she learned to others, or to master his own skills. For me, it is like looking at pictures by Raphael, for instance. You can hardly appreciate his art not knowing the historical context, who Raphael is and how and why he decided to draw this exact situation. What skills do you need to do the analysis? Everything is simple. You are required to have reading and writing skills, nothing unusual. Steps on how to analyze poetry, a little guide for you on where to start and what to write about you will find in the next paragraphs. What can you write about? Sometimes teachers give their students an opportunity to choose a poem by themselves while others have pretty strict rules on what you should write about. So if you do have a choice and do not know what to choose, the best advice I can give you is to pick the one that â€Å"speaks to you†. Do not make such mistakes like choosing a short one, because sometimes they can be way harder to analyze; do not pick something that is too easy, because you will not have much to write about and this will not make you any good you will not understand the full strength and the point of the analysis and your paper will be weak and not convincing at all. It’s like if you have a choice to describe a banana, a mango, and Pandanus. The first one is too easy, the second one is pretty difficult but doable, and the third one..you don’t know what that is? Exactly. So, just pick something that you understand or can relate to the theme if it and do your best.

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