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How to Write the BEST Poetry Topic Sentences!

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hey to those of you that tube the U I'm

Tim frus and welcome to the Garden of

English I'm thrilled you're here to

travel through the sands of time as we

continue to respond to a prompt about

the poem Oz amandus we've broken down

the prompt and we've annotated the poem

so now it's time to start writing about

it but before we do I'd like to remind

you that if you haven't watched the

first two videos in the series you

should they will give you great tips for

exam day and Beyond the videos are

linked in the description and they have

thumbnails that look like these now when

it comes to writing about poetry I do

something different than all of the

other times that I write any essay

rather than producing my thesis first I

actually produce topic sentences for my

body paragraphs first after I produce

these I then generate my thesis and I'll

cover thesis generation in my next video

you don't have to do things in the same

order that I do but I think you'll see

why I do it this way as we continue here

today so here's how I generate my topic

sentences oh that reminds me if you

don't know what a topic sentence is you

need to know that it's the first

sentence of each body paragraph of your

essay a topic sentence is kind of like a

contract between you and the person

reading your essay whatever you say your

paragraph will be about is what the

paragraph has to be about the better the

topic sentence the easier it is to write

the paragraph and each topic sentence

should fall under the broad umbrella

that is your thesis statement which is

normally the last sentence of your intro

paragraph or during a time writing it

can actually serve as your intro

paragraph like I said I'll cover thesis

statements a little bit later I want to

begin today by reminding you about the

annotations I made about the poem O of

andas they're about to show right up on your

screen what I'm going to do is I'm going

to show you how these annotations can be

easily transposed into topic sentences

what makes this process super simple is

having well- constructed templates to

put this information into so I'm about

to put up some top accented stems for

poetry right up on the screen and then

we're going to check out how to use them

here they [Music]

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are you may notice that I have four

topic sentence templates I do usually

recommend that all students strive to

produce three three body paragraphs in

each one of their essays if they're

timed body paragraphs are the paragraphs

that come after the introductory

paragraph but before the conclusion if

you didn't know anyway since there are

four top accented stems you may think

that I want students to now produce four

body paragraphs when writing about

poetry but this is actually not the case

with poetry the conclusion paragraph is

kind of like a hybrid between a

traditional body paragraph and a

traditional conclusion I'll show you how

to produce the full conclusion later but

for now let's just learn how to fill in

these templates for topic sentences if

you're looking for a copy of these

templates and the examples that go with

them you can access them in the

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strong writing tips okay in order to

fill in the templates I'm going to take

my annotations and I'm going to

chronologically correlate them with

responding to the prompt itself here's a

pro tip when whenever you write about

any literature make sure you write about

it in chronological order this will

allow your essay to make much more sense

all right back to oam indus let's look

at topic sentence template one and write

our first one the first observations I

make in my annotations about literary

elements are based on setting point of

view and Cura when I write things into

the template I can label the literary

element or I can summarize the literary

element and today I'm going to model

both with topic sentence one here's what

I'm going to write out Shelly Begins by

presenting a reflective firstperson

frame narrative and includes multiple

instances of cura suggesting that the

fractured structure of the sonnet

symbolizes the present shattered state

of the poetical monument and the break

in time between its Inception and the

Traveler's viewing you'll notice on the

left hand side of the topic sentence I

included some literary and poetic

elements and on the right hand side I

correlated it with understandings that I

had already made in my annotations these

understandings relate in some way to the

question that we have to answer about

the poem that we generated when we broke

broke down the prompt let me remind you

of the question that we have to answer

throughout our paper what is the complex

relationship between power pride and the

passing of time the language after the

word suggesting correlates with the

ideas I have to focus on based on the

question because the understanding I

make explores times relationship to the

speakers of the poem and the current

state of the Monument of the powerful

Tyrant time power Pride all covered in

this observation the understanding side

of the template also correlates with the

annotations that I originally made

you'll also want to notice of the

literary elements and the poetic

elements that this topic sentence hits

upon some clearly named some not I

looked at point of view frame narrative

Cura poetic structure symbolism and

Universal ideas whoa that's a lot now to

write this paragraph I just need to

provide examples of where the frame

narrative happens and where the cura

shows up then for the commentary I'd

have to explain how the textual evidence

Works to symbolize the state of the

monument and the breaks in the

historical time periods this is why

topic sentences are so important if they

are done well and always Ain a reference

to the textual evidence you're going to

include in your paragraph and your

understandings in relation to the prompt

you'll know exactly what to do in the

rest of your writing all right now I'd

like to move on to topic sentence number

two I'm going to go to the shift that I

noticed in line six when the speaker

moves from reflecting on the wreck to

focusing on the sculptor here's how I'd

fill in template number two the speaker

then shifts to contrasting the negative

attributes of the ruler with the power

of the artist showcasing that though the

Tyrant may have had the authority at one

point in history the artist power to

convey his message has lasted longer I

chose my second topic sentence material

based on the shifts that I originally

marked when I annotated the poem notice

that this time I didn't directly mention

any lit or poetic elements in my topic

sentence but my topic sentence still

deals with literary and poetic elements

it deals with shifts and contrasts it

deals with characterization and it deals

with universal ideas and insights to

write this paragraph I'd have to include

textual evidence about where the

attributes are contrasted and then I'd

have to explain how the contrast conveys

the artist's power lasting longer notice

too that this topic sentence has the

word though in it both the words though

and although help add complexity to your

writing so you want to consider using

them if you can you can actually learn

more about how to do this in this

particular video of course it's linked

down below as I continue to follow my

templates I'm going to write topic

sentence three about the other major

shift I found during my annotation

process when oas's quote is referenced

here's what topic sentence 3 would look

like the speaker follows this by

recounting a boastful claim revealing

the viciously arrogant and tyrannical

nature of the Pharaoh this topic

sentence discusses the single quote from

the dead pharaoh and correlates it with

how it characterizes him so we are doing

this right even without explicitly

mentioning any lit elements now to

finish this paragraph I'd have to

include the boastful claim and explain

how it makes the past leaders seem

tyrannical and arrogant now it's on to

the fourth topic sentence but you need

to know that this one is going to

actually begin our conclusion because of

this we need to create a sentence that

incorporates the whole poem everything

that happens in it there is another

video for how to write the Poetry

conclusion anyway to create the final

sentence I'm going to articulate a major

contrast or shift from the beginning of

the poem to the end and then I'm going

to finish this sentence with a universal

Insight in all of the other topic

sentences my understandings that's the

information that showed up on the right

hand side of each template have in some

way related to what was going on in the

poem but in this last sentence our

understanding side of our topic sentence

has to be entirely Universal this means

means that it won't mention anything

about the poem or the characters in it

once I get to the last part of the

sentence the understanding will be some

sort of lesson that can apply to most if

not all people so here's what our final

sentence would look like and it will

convey that we have understood the whole

poem the speaker concludes by

contrasting the Bold claims of the

memorialized Tyrant with the desolate

land surrounding the ancient ruins

illustrating that only art has the power

to overcome the inevitable destruction

that comes at the hands of time the end

of that topic sentence is completely

thematic the beginning of the topic

sentence references the monument from

the start of the poem highlights the

Bold claims explored in the middle and

references the final setting that's

actually projected at the end of the

poem thus in this last sentence the

whole poem is covered both literally and

idea wise and there you have them all of

these topic sentences for all of your

poetry paragraphs and they

Rock and now that we have our topic

sentences thesis construction will be

incredibly simple you can learn how to

write your poetry thesis statements by

checking out what's about to pop up on your

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