Yesterday and today, we analyzed Romantic poets' use of the following techniques:
personification, extended metaphor, sensory details, and strong and vivid word choice (especially verbs). Tomorrow, we will complete a writing in response, using the notes recorded from analysis of these poems.
The poems we analyzed were:
William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
(analyzed for personification)
William Wordsworth's "Lines Written in Early Spring"
(analyzed for sensory details)
William Blake's "A Poison Tree"
(analyzed for extended metaphor)
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
(analyzed for strong, vivid word choice)
For each poem, we wrote about how the poetic technique was used in the poem, how the use of this technique affected our interpretation of the poem, and what the overall message was of the poem.
