Tyler Carr - Poetry+Analysis_Prewriting_Reading+Closely+to+Arrive+at+an+Interpretation

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19 Apr 2023

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Write down any immediate thoughts that come to mind: build your understanding. Read the poem again, then answer these guiding questions to get a better sense of what the poem is about: Title: what is the poem"s title? (or, what is the poem"s rst line, if it has no title?) If so, who is the speaker and how does the speaker feel? (or, what is the speaker"s tone?) If so, who is the poem addressed to: deepen your understanding. Read the poem a third time out loud. This time, take a closer look at the features of the poem that stand out to you. How does this structure affect the poem"s meaning or message: interpret. This is your interpretation that you"ll explain in your essay. Here are some sentence frames to help you: Interpretation of the poem: plan for writing. Put a star ( * ) next to 2 3 main features that helped you arrive at your interpretation.

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Renaissance

1300-1600

Time period when art, literature, and ideas became very important and a lot of art was produced

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

What To Do

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1. Summarize what happens in the poem, including..

Who is the speaker?

What is the setting/ situation?

What happens in the poem?

2. Identify lines of the poem that you at first do not understand.

*** Re-read, chunk, rearrange the words, and/or use a reference material. Underline the line and translate this line into your own words as best as you can.

3. Which words in the text are the most significant or striking? Highlight them in green.

4. Pick the top three most significant words and explain why you chose them.

5. Identify the poem's overall TONE and MEANING.

What is the main attitude or tone of the speaker in the poem?

What is the main message or meaning of the poem?

6. How does a word's multiple meanings (its connotative, figurative, or technical meanings) contribute to the main MEANING of the poem?

The speaker is JOHN DONNE

The setting is

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5. No quarters in England, though, and I don't remember what the equivalent British coin was called.

6. As with every other country I've visited, nobody thought I was Indian. This made me lonely.

7. Lonely enough to cry in my hotel bed one night as I kept thinking, "I am the only Indian in this country right now. I'm the only Indian within a five-thousand-mile circle."

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In the poem "Answer to A Child's Question" by Samuel Coleridge explain why you think the speaker draws connections between nature and love?

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