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How to analyse poetry

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Poem Rhyme Simile Adjective

Writing about poetry

So what do you think of poetry at the moment?

Writing about poetry

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level, so you can use them to get at complicated truths in a way that straightforward storytelling fails to do.

Who wrote this quote?

Who wrote this quote?

Poetry Through Time

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level, so you can use them to get at complicated truths in a way that straightforward storytelling fails to do.

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What do I have to

write about to show that I can analyse

poetry?

Today’s Lesson:

Key Question

Keyword: analyse To look at something in detail in order to find out its important features and its meaning

FLIRT

• Based on what you already know, what do you think each letter of the FLIRT model stands for?

• F• L• I • R • T

FLIRT

Form/structureLanguageImageryRhyme/rhythmTheme/topic/tone

Ext: What do the words mean? What do you think you need to be analysing under each heading?

Ext: What do the words mean? What do you think you need to be analysing under each heading?

F

L

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R

T

Split your page into 5

We are going to go through these in a funny order!!

Split your page into 5

We are going to go through these in a funny order!!

2. Form and Structure• What type of poem is it?● How many lines?• How many stanzas?• Any unusually short or long lines?

Form/Structure• Form

– what type of poem is it?• Structure

– How is the poem arranged on the page? – What order are the ideas written in and why?

The Fierce wind ragesAnd I see how trees surviveThey have learned to bend

Metaphor is developed

Message

Structure

A skilful poet will use structure to support the meaning of the poem. It includes:

» What ideas, images of feelings occur in each stanza?

» Is the structure appropriate for the topic?

» Does the structure reflect the topic of the poem? eg. A shape poem.

This limerick has a short and bouncy structure, which adds to its entertaining message. It reads quickly, so the reader doesn’t dwell on the message

This limerick has a short and bouncy structure, which adds to its entertaining message. It reads quickly, so the reader doesn’t dwell on the message

The form a poem takes can hint at meaning.

A haiku is usually about human experience and emotions.

A limerick is nearly always a nonsense poem intended for fun.

A sonnet is nearly always about love.

Example 2: Limerick

There once was a teacher from leads,

Who swallowed a packet of seeds.

In less than an hour,

Her nose was a flower,

And her hair was covered in weeds.

This poem has 5 lines, a rhyme scheme of aabba. That makes is a limerick. Therefore, the reader knows it is intended as humour.

Language

This is the MOST IMPORTANT ONE.

• Words (adjectives, verbs)• Techniques (similes, metaphors,

repetition)

Language

Why would a poet choose a word like…

Desperate SadCruel BadRipped SeparatedLonging Want

Instead of

Language

• Words are loaded with meaning!!

Imagery

• This is the IMAGES that the poem CREATES IN YOUR MIND. i.e. what you think of when you read it

•

Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting

to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from

caving in?

Baby, you're a fireworkCome on, let your colors burstMake 'em go, oh, oh, ohYou're gonna leave 'em falling down

Images created with words

Rhyme and rhythm

Rhyme • Which words sound the same when you

read them?• What is the rhyme scheme?Rhythm• What is the beat of the poem?

(bouncy, steady, regular, all jumbled up?)● Iambic pentameter?

Regular rhyme helps the poem to flow and makes it enjoyable to read

Regular rhyme helps the poem to flow and makes it enjoyable to read

Theme, topic, tone and atmosphere

What do these words mean? Theme Topic Tone Atmosphere

Theme and tone?

Theme is an enduring idea in a text. In this case it is war.

Tone is what the author thinks; their attitude.

Same topic, different atmosphere

• Topic is what something is ABOUT• Atmosphere is the mood of the piece

How do I analyse poetry?

Today’s Lesson:

Key Question

Choose one aspect of F.L.I.R.T and write a short explanation without using the key word. Can your

partner guess which category it is?

Reflection

•Do you think FLIRT is a helpful model?

•Why or why not?