Analyzing+Poetry

Students- if you are having difficultly analyzing your poems, please try a few of these tips/ideas to get started:  **Make sure you have at least one paragraph (5 sentences) analyzing your famous poem. In addition, you will need one paragraph explaining why you chose to put that poem in your poetry book.
 * Read the poem to yourself and then out loud.
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 * Underline any words or phrases that you feel are important.
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 * Think about how the poem makes you feel. Does it remind you of anything that has happened in your life?
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 * What does the poem make you visualize? Can you see, hear, smell, taste, feel anything from the poem?
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 * Why do you think the author wrote this poem? What is his/her purpose?
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 * What do you think the author wants us to learn from this poem?
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 * <span style="color: #1414e1; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What is this poem about? What do the author's words mean?
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 * <span style="color: #1414e1; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What types of figurative language does the author use? (similes, metaphors, alliteration, etc.) How do these devices affect the poem?

Have fun analyzing! :) <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">