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- Building The Right Environment For Study
- Causes of study stress and how to overcome them
- General study tips for new or returning students
- How To Deal With Study Stress
- How To Deliver A Speech To A Class
- How To Overcome Study Block
- How To Study In A Group
- How To Take Notes In Class
- How to Focus When Studying and Be Completely Prepared for Your Exam
- How to Study for an Exam, Without Cramming
- How to Work Together as a Group To Deliver a Group Presentation (General Tips)
- How to avoid study procrastination
- How to stay healthy for studying
- How to use the Internet to study
- Memory Tips For Studying
- Note Taking and Revision Tips
- Study Tips: Audiobooks and studying on public transport
- Three Essay Writing Tips And The Difference between Spoken English and Written English
- Common Themes in Literature
- Best Places To Study For An Exam
- Getting the Most Out of Your Studying Time
- How To Deliver A “High Distinction” Presentation
- Studying for a Science Exam
- Proper Ways to Take Notes When Reading
Analyzing Poems
Writing a poem can be challenging but analyzing a poem will be a lot harder to interpret and understand. The key to analyzing a poem is to know where to find it and what is it that you need to find.
You need to read the poem several times in order to find out what emotions the poem wants to evoke to the reader. Reading only once or twice will never work. Read it aloud and try to feel the tone of the poem.
Get a dictionary and highlight all the words that you do not understand. Poems usually have words that are hard to understand so you have to look them up in the dictionary. You cannot fully understand the poem if you do not know the meaning of some of its words.
A poem has a speaker and it is not always the poet who is the speaker in the poem. Find out also where the poem takes place. This will help you find out the point of view of the poem and the imagery that you can construct.
Study the meter, rhyme and pattern of the poem. There are guides and textbooks that can help you with this.
Poems are full of sensory images. The themes of the poem are sometimes based on the images, objects or scenes in the poem. A particular flower in a poem may signify something or it may try to evoke feelings from the reader. Analyze if certain images or objects are given importance in the poem.
Remember that the poet who created the poem combined the words, emotions and images in order to convey a message. You have to analyze each elements and fuse them together to have a good understanding of the poem and its message.
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