Friday, October 30, 2009

Appreciating a poem

Poem
Appreciating a poem
Steps
Read twice atleast
Find:
The person, speaker and the theme
The sublect: the story
Events, thoughts, feelings, mood
Content analysis
Find
Appreciating the style/diction
The genre
Structure
No. of lines, stanzas
Metre
Rhime scheme
Sound effects
Audio quality
Alliteration
Assonance
Repetition of sounfds
Visual quality
Imagery

Rhetotical devices
Figures of speech
Poetic diction
Simily
Metaphor
Irony
Beautiful expressions
Trasphered e[pithet
Personification
Hyperbole
Paradoxical conceits
You need not explain all these things, just nitice any of such elements in the poem and may mention about it in two sentences making your appreciation complete.

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