Be SURE you can answer all of the following questions in your own words:
1. In reading and understanding poetry, WHY is it important to be aware of the connotative meanings of words as much as the denotative meanings?
2. a. Explain the difference between literal language and figurative language.
2. b. Why do poets choose figurative language over the literal when composing lines of poetry?
3. What is the difference between the speaker of the poem and the poet?
4. What do shifts in poetry indicate?
5. Why does poetry require closer reading than prose? What makes poetry so "hard" to understand?
6. What does imagery refer to in a poem?
When given a poem, expect to answer the following questions:
7. a. Who is the speaker?
7. b. What does the poem reveal about the speaker's character? (Example: if you say a speaker is determined or lonely or reflective, indicate words, phrases or lines in which this seems to be apparent.)
8. a.From what perspective or point of view is the speaker describing specific events?
8. b. Is the speaker recounting events of the past or events that are occuring in the present? If past events are being recalled, what present meaning to they have for the speaker?
9. a.What literal circumstance or situation is presented in the poem?
9. b.What specific images (or word pictures) or other types of figurative language are used in the poem to help convey the circumstance or situation? (You need NOT name the convention or type of figurative language, but you need to be able to point out words, phrases, lines.)
10. a.Write the line(s) that indicate the shift that occurs in the poem.
10. b. What shift has occurred in the poem? Does the shift affect the speaker? If so, how? If not . . . why not?
*** 11. What is it about the nature of humanity or human experience IN GENERAL that is revealed in the poem? Discuss this in 1-3 paragraphs, relating lines from the poem as needed to support your answer.
1. In reading and understanding poetry, WHY is it important to be aware of the connotative meanings of words as much as the denotative meanings?
2. a. Explain the difference between literal language and figurative language.
2. b. Why do poets choose figurative language over the literal when composing lines of poetry?
3. What is the difference between the speaker of the poem and the poet?
4. What do shifts in poetry indicate?
5. Why does poetry require closer reading than prose? What makes poetry so "hard" to understand?
6. What does imagery refer to in a poem?
When given a poem, expect to answer the following questions:
7. a. Who is the speaker?
7. b. What does the poem reveal about the speaker's character? (Example: if you say a speaker is determined or lonely or reflective, indicate words, phrases or lines in which this seems to be apparent.)
8. a.From what perspective or point of view is the speaker describing specific events?
8. b. Is the speaker recounting events of the past or events that are occuring in the present? If past events are being recalled, what present meaning to they have for the speaker?
9. a.What literal circumstance or situation is presented in the poem?
9. b.What specific images (or word pictures) or other types of figurative language are used in the poem to help convey the circumstance or situation? (You need NOT name the convention or type of figurative language, but you need to be able to point out words, phrases, lines.)
10. a.Write the line(s) that indicate the shift that occurs in the poem.
10. b. What shift has occurred in the poem? Does the shift affect the speaker? If so, how? If not . . . why not?
*** 11. What is it about the nature of humanity or human experience IN GENERAL that is revealed in the poem? Discuss this in 1-3 paragraphs, relating lines from the poem as needed to support your answer.
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