Today, we began analyzing romantic poetry and will continue with this on Monday.
The poems we looked at are as follows:
Robert Burns "To a Mouse"
William Blake "The Tyger"
"The Lamb"
John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Percy Shelley "To a Skylark"
*Lewis Carroll "Little Birds"
"The Voice of the Lobster"
*Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
*Emily Dickinson "A Bird Came Down"
"Hope is the Thing with Feathers"
For each poem, these are the analysis step-by-step directions:
1. Identify and record with specific line references each of the following: imagery, metaphors/similes, word choice, and poetic techniques and structure.
2. Analyze how the categories above contribute to symbolism, tone or mood, and speaker.
3. Determine the message or theme and your personal reading interpretations based upon the categories above.
4. Create a new title for the poem and explain why you feel this is better than the old.
We will continue working on this in class on Monday and then will turn it in on Tuesday.
