Unseen poetry

UNSEEN POETRY

• STEP 1) Think about the poet: Male or female? Is there a date?
• STEP 2) First reading for literal meaning: underline words you dont understand, have a look at surrounding words.
• STEP 3) Is there a deeper meaning? message? moral? theme? Is there anything obvious that hints at it? LOOK AT THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM NECESSARY OR DOESN'T REALLY FIT WITH THE POEM. imagery or connotations or metaphors. What is the mood and atmosphere?
• STEP 4) Analyse the language (SEE SLIDE 2) Spot the technique and then explain why you think it is used. And Punctuation.
• STEP 5) structure: how is it organised? When do the stanzas change? Why? Is it cyclical?
• STEP 6) form: pattern of organisation that a poet chooses. Pick out patterns, disjointed? same amount of syllables?

LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES

• ALLITERATION: A string of 2 + words beginning with the same letter.
• ASSONANCE: Repetition of the vowel sound
• CONSONANCE : repetition of the consanent sound.
• METAPHOR: A comparison of 2 objects
• ONOMATOPOEIA: words that imitate their sound
• PERSONIFICATION: giving emotion or human traits to inanimate objects
• REPETITION: The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas.
• RHYME: Similar ending sounds of words
• SIMILE: A comparison using words such as "like" "as" or "than"
• STANZA: A grouping of 2+ lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form or rhyme scheme.
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