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Group 7 Stem 112

The document provides guidance on how to analyze a poem through critical reading and examination. It outlines 5 stages of reading a poem: 1) initial straight read, 2) read out loud, 3) mark unfamiliar words, 4) mark key words, 5) reverse read. It then lists questions to consider like the genre, speaker, subject, structure, setting, imagery, statements/conflicts, sound, language, allusions, qualities evoked, historical context, and expressed worldviews. The document aims to help analyze poems through close examination of its various literary elements and techniques.

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Group 7 Stem 112

The document provides guidance on how to analyze a poem through critical reading and examination. It outlines 5 stages of reading a poem: 1) initial straight read, 2) read out loud, 3) mark unfamiliar words, 4) mark key words, 5) reverse read. It then lists questions to consider like the genre, speaker, subject, structure, setting, imagery, statements/conflicts, sound, language, allusions, qualities evoked, historical context, and expressed worldviews. The document aims to help analyze poems through close examination of its various literary elements and techniques.

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GROUP 7 STEM 112 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND WORLD

Critical
Analysis
in Poetry
What is poetry?
• literature that evokes a concentrated
imaginative awareness through
language chosen
• arranged for its meaning, sound,
and rhythm

https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry
What is critical
analysis?
• careful examination
and evaluation of
a text, image, or other
work or performance

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-critical-analysis-composition-1689810
STAGES OF READING

•1ST READING •2ND READING •3RD READING


Read straight Read out loud Mark unfamiliar
through •pay attention to words or
ignore line and line breaks and phrases
stanza break punctuation
STAGES OF READING

•REVERSE
•4TH READING •5TH READING
READING
Mark key words Interact with done after first
that helped the poem reading
undestand the
theme
Analysis
Collab Space Central Pih Deck
What is the
genre, or form,
of the poem?
•Is it a sonnet, an elegy, a lyric, a
narrative, a dramatic monologue,
an epistle, an epic (there are
many more)?
Who is speaking
in the poem?

IDENTIFY THE VOICE.

• What does the voice have to


do with what is happening in
the poem, what is its attitude,
what is the tone of the voice?
Who is speaking
in the poem?

• How involved in the action or


reflection of the poem is the
voice?
• What is the perspective or
point of view of the speaker?
What is the argument, thesis, or
subject of the poem

WHAT, THAT IS TO SAY, IS IT APPARENTLY 'ABOUT'?

ANY CONFLICTS, TENSIONS, AMBIGUITIES;


KEY RELATIONSHIPS; ANY CLIMAXES /
PROBLEMS POSED OR SOLVED; TONE; THE
SETTING.
What is the structure
of the poem?

Formal Structure: way the poem's


components goes together

Thematic structure: the the way


the argument is developed
How does the
poem make
use of setting?
There is the setting in terms of time and
place, and there is the setting in terms of
the physical world described in the poem.
HOW
HOW DOES
DOES THE
THE POEM
POEM USE
USE IMAGERY?
IMAGERY?

IMAGES OF THE •I M A G E S A S
PHYSICAL FIGURES OF
SETTING SPEECH
Are there key
statements or conflicts
in the poem that
appear to be central to
its meaning?
Is the poem direct or indirect in
making its meanings?
How does the
sound of the
poetry contribute
to its meaning?
both the rhythm and the sound
of the words contribute to the
meaning
• What kinds of words are used?
Examine the • How much connotation, or
use of words associations are there ?
• Does the poem use puns,
language. double meanings, ambiguities
of meaning?
Can you see any way
in which the poem
refers to, uses, or relies
on previous writing?

This is known
as allusion or
intertextuality.
What qualities does the poem
evoke?

• What sorts of learning, experience,


taste and interest would the 'ideal'
or 'good' reader of this poem have?
• What can this tell you about what
the poem 'means' or is about?
What is your historical and
cultural distance from the poem?

What can you say about the difference between your own
culture's views and your experiences compared to those of the
voice, characters, and world of the poem?

What could this work tell us about the world of its making?
What are the basic ideas
about the world that are
expressed?
What is the
What areas of human world-view and
experience are important? the ideology of
the poem?
What areas of human
experience are ignored?

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