(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...

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(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. ...

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An analysis of the astounding collection of poetry and stories by Robert Frost I find the themes of ironary, satire, and most of all nature to be present and persistent. ... Robert Frost gave the world a window, for the world to view poetry through. ... In another one of his poems, "The Road Not Taken", Frost Introduces the reader to nature, one of his ongoing themes in his poetry. ...

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Poetry Analysis - Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen introduces the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, with a shocking images of soldiers in World War 1. The first two lines sets the mood of the poem - the horror and starkness of life in the war. He refers to the soldiers as 'hags', 'old beggars', wh...

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"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...

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