Today in class, we analyzed poetry from Poet Laureates in the past decade or so, including one from our state! If you were absent, simply go online, check out a recent Poet Laureate, read a poem, answer the following questions about it, and turn it in tomorrow: You can check out the Poet Laureates I have on our blog for guidance too.
Questions:
1.Describe the feelings that surfaced as you read the poem:
2.What words, phrases, and details triggered your strongest responses?
3.Identify and explain how you can apply "The Associative Thinking Process" to a certain aspect of the poem.
4.What words, phrases, lines, and details may have baffled you? Why?
5.Identify and explain observations about the poem's details that may contribute to the overall meaning:
6.What words or phrases recur? How? Where? Why?
7.Infer and explain any connections you can establish between details of the central topic of the poem and language used:
8.Explain how well you feel you understand the poem at this point:
9.How do your own values, ideas, experiences, and standards influence your interpretation and evaluation of the poem?
10.Describe how the poem affects you as a reader: Do you appreciate it? Comment on the poem's aesthetic accomplishment.
