Chapter 7 Interpreting poetry Introduction Poetry involves an

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Chapter 7 Interpreting poetry

Chapter 7 Interpreting poetry

Introduction Poetry involves an emotional impact that is best served by a reader’s knowing

Introduction Poetry involves an emotional impact that is best served by a reader’s knowing and understanding of how the mind and body work to share an experience with the audience.

Types of poetry • The content in the poem cannot be separated when forming

Types of poetry • The content in the poem cannot be separated when forming an explanation, the sense and the sound work together to become the poem.

Steps to understanding poetry • Poems are meant to be read aloud, if they

Steps to understanding poetry • Poems are meant to be read aloud, if they aren’t you could have trouble understanding what the full poem is trying to convey. • Poems can have more than one meaning. These meanings are discovered through the readers and writers of poems. • The more you analyze poems, the better you become at understanding them fluently.

Considerations of meanings • Page 91 in textbook and read sonnet by Archibald Mac.

Considerations of meanings • Page 91 in textbook and read sonnet by Archibald Mac. Leish

Word choice and grammatical structure Denotation and connotation are used in poems. Denotation is

Word choice and grammatical structure Denotation and connotation are used in poems. Denotation is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. Connotation is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Sense imagery • Poets use word that appeal to the senses. • Bodily responses

Sense imagery • Poets use word that appeal to the senses. • Bodily responses and emotional responses relate to. why we make first impressions of things and store memories. • We use this in poetry to provide an emotional response from the reader.

Figures of speech • Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of

Figures of speech • Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. • Example: Her cheeks are as red as roses. • Metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. • Example: The world is a stage.

Figures of speech continued. • Personification is a comparison of a personal nature or

Figures of speech continued. • Personification is a comparison of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. • Example: The baseball bat screamed as it smacked the ball. • Apostrophe is addressed to a person that is typically dead or absent, or thing that is personified. • Example: “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. ”

Lengths • A well written poem gives the interpreter a good reason for a

Lengths • A well written poem gives the interpreter a good reason for a slight pause to get thoughts going through the brain and adds new characteristics to the poem. • The consistency of the sound pattern plays a strong factor in the unity of the sound pattern. The sound pattern is basically any rhythm or rhyme scheme being used in a poem.

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