Analyze Poetry -a Summarize

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Poetry Analysis 1. Finding the meaning a) General meaning: This should be expressed simply in one or at the most two sentences. It should be based on a reading of the whole poem. b) Detailed meaning: This should be given stanza by stanza, but you should not paraphrase the poem. If a poem is not divided into stanza, you should make some rough attempt in your reading to divide the line into fairlycontained groups. c) Writer’s intention: Your interpretation of a poet’s aims is, therefore, largely your personal matter, but at the time it should never be far-fetched. It is, however, most important to explain what you have understood a poet’s purpose to be. 2. Structural devices a) Contrast: Two completely opposite pictures side by side. Sometimes it is immediately obvious and sometimes implied. b) Illustration: The poet’s way to make the (abstract) idea clear in the form of a vivid picture. c) Repetition: Repetition single lines or the whole stanza at intervals to emphasize a particular idea. 3. Sense devices a) Simile: This is direct comparison and can be recognized by the use of the words like and as. b) Metaphor: This is rather like a simile except that the comparison is not direct but implied: the words like and as are not used. c) Personification: A figurative speech in which inanimate object or abstract ideas is endowed with human qualities or action. d) Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which emphasis in achieved by deliberate exaggeration. 4. Sound devices a) Alliteration: The repetition of the same sound at frequent intervals. b) Onomatopoeia: i.e. in bahasa, small house lizard was named as its sound (Cicak, bunyinya cek..cek..cek) c) Rhyme: the same pattern phoneme in the end of each line of a stanza. (a b a b, c d c d) d) Assonance: a. This occurs when a post introduces imperfect rhymes. b. The close repetition of similar vowel sound, usually in stressed syllable. e) Rhythm: The sense of movement attribute to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. 5. Imagery: Changing an abstract idea into concrete idea, also called mental picture. This process will be possessed by someone if a reader is able to participate cognitively as well as emotionally. a) Visual fx (sight fx)

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b) c) d) e)

Internal sensation (hungry, thirsty, drunken, sick, etc) Tactile/thermal imagery (thouch/feel) Olfactory imagery (smell) Auditory imagery (sound)