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How to Analyze and Annotate ANY Poem!
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hey there folks I'm Tim frus from the
garden of English it seems to me that we
are still on our poetry journey in my
last video I showed you how to break
down a poetry prompt but just because
you can break down the prompt that
doesn't mean that poetry has become any
easier yet at least poetry is really
hard even for me and I read it all the
time so I'm going to give you some
strategies to read any poem thoroughly
with or without a prompt while I do this
I'm going to also go over how to
annotate a poem so that you can easily
transl your markings into complex thesis
statements and extra awesome topic
sentences I'll cover the thesis and
topic sentences in other videos so when
it comes to learning to annotate let's
do this let's do this thing I'm going to
continue using Oz amandas as the poem
for this series if you're interested in
accessing the poem prompts and
everything else that will be covered
throughout this particular poetry track
you just need to check out the document
that I've posted right in the
description below this video everything
is there since Oz amandas is a sonnet
and only 14 lines I'm going to pop it up
right on the the screen here so that you
can remind yourself of what it says I'll
also put a link to a version read by
Brian Cranston in the description you'll
definitely want to experience that
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is okay so how do we position ourselves
to critically read this or any other
poem well we actually just have to go
through a few steps I'm going to show
you each step individually and this is
how you'll want to originally practice
and completing each step individually
will get you used to what you need to do
at all times you will eventually want to
be able to do all of these steps
simultaneously with any poem Above All
Else the first step that you want to do
is look for major shifts shifts in poems
happen on multiple levels so there are
many types that you can look for when
you look for shifts you want to look for
shifts in chronology images line length
stanzas or stanza length punctuation
verb tenses points of view literary
elements contrasts and word connotations
the goe actually has a poster for
identifying shifts and it looks like
this it can actually be accessed in the
description right below now when you're
looking for shifts all you need to do is
draw a line when one shows up even if
it's mid-sentence so I'm going to
encourage you to pause this video right
here and try to Mark shifts in ozam
Indus pull up the poem and just think
about where you can Mark shifts that you
might see after you do this I'll show
you where I've noticed some major shifts
try it [Music]
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now when I read oam India I noticed the
following shifts in line two the speaker
shifts to telling the story of another
speaker who traveled to a far away land
in line six The Narrative shifts from
describing the broken image to focusing
on the skill of the sculptor and the art
that survives in line nine the poem
shifts to focusing on the words of aamus
himself and in line 12 the poem shifts
to revealing that nothing of oas's
Kingdom remains in the desert now you
may not have had the same major shifts
as me but as long as you can explain why
you marked the shifts that you did
you're doing this right you're amazing I
am amazing once you get used to marking
shifts you'll want to shift to The Next
Step In The annotation process this step
will have you marking literary and
poetic elements down the leand side of
the page rather than just assuming that
you know what literary and poetic
elements are or what to Mark I'm going
to provide you with a list of literary
elements right on your [Music]
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screen did you know that we have a
poster with these yep we do of course
it's linked in the description down
below this video now that's the same
spot where you can see things like the
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create free YouTube content to help you
get through your English classes all
right back to annotation
steps rather than just telling you to
practice labeling lit and poetic devices
down the side I'm going to model this
for you then you can try it with another
poem I'd encourage you to use the poem
for that he looked not aonor because
it's also a sign on it and it was used
on the 2014 AP Lit exam now here's how
I'd label lit and poetic elements down
the left- hand side of the poem If I
Were annotating as I'm reading the first
line I'm going to mark first person
point of view and setting when I get to
the second line I'm going to Mark frame
narrative because a new speaker is
introduced by the actual speaker in the
poem and I'm going to put the word Cura
there lines 2 through five I'm going to
label imagery and characterization in
lines 6 through 8 I'm going to label
characterization as the poem explores
the sculptor and the universal idea
since the ideas of Art and survival are
implied in lines 9- 11 I'm going to Mark
monologue and characterization and for
lines 12 through 14 I'm going to label
setting imagery and Universal idea since
desolation is referred to with these
labels on the le- hand side I'm focusing
on knowing what literary and poetic
elements look like in a poem now if you
don't know what literary and poetic
elements are here's a way that you can
Define them these elements are anything
an author presents to convey the meaning
of his or her text so literary elements
and poetic elements can often be used
interchangeably there are a few elements
that show up more in poetry than in
other literature these are things like
sound devices poetic forms Cura and
enjam but know that you can talk about
all literary and poetic elements when
analyzing poetry without having to
really differentiate between the two now
that you've practiced the first two
moves in annotating poetry it's time to
move on to the third one this particular
step will have you annotate
understandings and observations down the
right hand side of the page these
observations are going to be abstract
judgments you need to make inferences
based on the literary elements displayed
in the text that you see now rather than
just asking yourself what can I
understand based on this text I'm going
to give you some scaffolded questions so
that you can know exactly what to ask so
you can draw accurate inferences so when
you're going to make observations that
correlate with the literary elements and
text that you've marked here's what you
need to ask yourself based on this
particular section of text that includes
the literary elements that I've marked
what can I infer about a speak speaker
or specific character's traits a speaker
or character's relationship with others
a conflict or point of suspense or
tension a mood how this text influences
or relates to other potentially future
plot events how this language symbolizes
or embodies the events in the story or
the poem how this text reveals a
universal idea or insight and a
universal idea or Insight is just
another way of saying theme with these
questions you can actually make the
following observations based on what we
marked as important literary elements
let me model what this looks like for
you down the right hand side of our poem
O amandus the setting in line one sets
up a shift to the past and creates a
focus on an archaic atmosphere the cura
in line two mimics the separation of the
initial speaker into the frame narrative
and the cura in line three symbolizes
the broken image the second speaker is
describing the imagery in lines 4
through five highlights how the man who
the statue represents is someone whose
cold spirited and authoritative and it
reiterates that the image itself is
broken line six characterizes the
sculpture as being skillful and how his
art has survived which will later
contrast with the leader whose kingdom
has not lines 6 through 7 introduced the
universal ideas of Art and survival
which are what this poem is about and
line 8 continues to celebrate the artist
skill that was able to mock up the
Visage of the Tyrant lines 9 through 11
characterized oam Indus as a
narcissistic Tyrant and lines 12 through
14 introduce the Insight of desolation
at the hands of time and that very
little lasts these annotations will make
writing topic sentences for any poetry
essay incredibly easy so stay tuned for
that video but for now we have to
complete the last step of reading poetry
and annotating now that we finished
reading and dissecting the poem for
poetic elements and meaning we're going
to produce a universal Insight this step
has to be done after you read the poem
and some people know Universal insights
as theme so once you're done reading
your poem all you have to do is list out
universal ideas that the poem itself
relates to Universal ideas are abstract
Concepts that any work of literature
focuses on and explores I have a whole
video about finding these Linked In the
description down below the thumbnail
looks like this in the case of ozam
Indus we want to identify these
Universal ideas art power desolation
destruction and time once we list out
these ideas we want to ask based on this
poem what's the relationship between
some or all of these ideas answering
this question will give us a universal
Insight or in other words a thematic
statement we can then attribute this to
the poet to create this relationship you
can use the template that's about to
show up on the bottom of your screen to
make sure that this is done right every
time it's right here Universal insights
interrelate multiple ideas so for ozam
indas I could write a universal Insight
statement that looks like this Shel
writes amandus in order to illustrate
that only art has the power to overcome
the inevitable destruction that comes at
the hand of time this is the most
comprehensive way to digest poetry and
with practice it becomes really really
easy these annotations actually make
writing about poetry incredibly easy so
to see how all of these annotations
translate into thesis statements and
topic sentences you're going to want to watch
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