1. Comparing The Group Analysis
(Balance sharp-edged critical analysis with personal impression.) ... Poetry To analyze poetry: - Title - Paraphrase: to put something in your own words after the first read through - Connotation: the actual/true meaning, examining literary devices - Attitude: author's perspective (tone/diction/imagery) - Shift: key words, punctuation, stanza division, length, change in sound - Title Revisited: 2nd impression/proper understanding - Theme: love, betrayal, lost love (the poet's perspective/ideas) Commentary Organization - Introduction - Brief background of the poet - Inform...
(p.34) The commentary in Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama also pointed out the author's diction to lay the foundation for irony. ... (p. 34) "An analysis of "The Story of an Hour"" by Skole and Jobb: Oppgave notes situational irony in the piece. ...
He creates a series of scenes, most of them parties and any gaps in the plot are effectively filled with brief passages of analysis and overview. ... Similar to poetry, his images are rich with colour and language is used economically to create specific moods and convey ideas. ...
Fiction can be subjected to analysis and interpretation. ... The content of fiction may take the form of the events of a story, especially in novels and short stories, spoken remarks, especially in drama, or images and symbols, especially in poetry. ...
"Ballad of Birmingham": A Poetic Analysis Poetry is a form of expression, a way of invoking feelings from a reader as well as expressing one's own. Dudley Randall's, "Ballad of Birmingham" is an ironic poem about a great tragedy in Birmingham, Alabama where a small girl dies as a result of a b...