0:02 hey there folks I'm Tim frus from the
0:04 garden of English it seems to me that we
0:06 are still on our poetry journey in my
0:08 last video I showed you how to break
0:10 down a poetry prompt but just because
0:11 you can break down the prompt that
0:14 doesn't mean that poetry has become any
0:17 easier yet at least poetry is really
0:19 hard even for me and I read it all the
0:21 time so I'm going to give you some
0:23 strategies to read any poem thoroughly
0:26 with or without a prompt while I do this
0:27 I'm going to also go over how to
0:29 annotate a poem so that you can easily
0:31 transl your markings into complex thesis
0:33 statements and extra awesome topic
0:35 sentences I'll cover the thesis and
0:37 topic sentences in other videos so when
0:39 it comes to learning to annotate let's
0:41 do this let's do this thing I'm going to
0:44 continue using Oz amandas as the poem
0:45 for this series if you're interested in
0:47 accessing the poem prompts and
0:48 everything else that will be covered
0:50 throughout this particular poetry track
0:52 you just need to check out the document
0:53 that I've posted right in the
0:55 description below this video everything
0:57 is there since Oz amandas is a sonnet
0:59 and only 14 lines I'm going to pop it up
1:01 right on the the screen here so that you
1:03 can remind yourself of what it says I'll
1:04 also put a link to a version read by
1:06 Brian Cranston in the description you'll
1:07 definitely want to experience that
1:18 [Music]
1:21 is okay so how do we position ourselves
1:23 to critically read this or any other
1:25 poem well we actually just have to go
1:27 through a few steps I'm going to show
1:29 you each step individually and this is
1:31 how you'll want to originally practice
1:33 and completing each step individually
1:35 will get you used to what you need to do
1:37 at all times you will eventually want to
1:38 be able to do all of these steps
1:41 simultaneously with any poem Above All
1:43 Else the first step that you want to do
1:46 is look for major shifts shifts in poems
1:48 happen on multiple levels so there are
1:50 many types that you can look for when
1:51 you look for shifts you want to look for
1:54 shifts in chronology images line length
1:56 stanzas or stanza length punctuation
1:58 verb tenses points of view literary
2:01 elements contrasts and word connotations
2:03 the goe actually has a poster for
2:04 identifying shifts and it looks like
2:06 this it can actually be accessed in the
2:08 description right below now when you're
2:10 looking for shifts all you need to do is
2:12 draw a line when one shows up even if
2:13 it's mid-sentence so I'm going to
2:15 encourage you to pause this video right
2:18 here and try to Mark shifts in ozam
2:19 Indus pull up the poem and just think
2:21 about where you can Mark shifts that you
2:23 might see after you do this I'll show
2:25 you where I've noticed some major shifts
2:25 try it [Music]
2:27 [Music]
2:30 now when I read oam India I noticed the
2:32 following shifts in line two the speaker
2:34 shifts to telling the story of another
2:36 speaker who traveled to a far away land
2:38 in line six The Narrative shifts from
2:40 describing the broken image to focusing
2:42 on the skill of the sculptor and the art
2:44 that survives in line nine the poem
2:46 shifts to focusing on the words of aamus
2:49 himself and in line 12 the poem shifts
2:51 to revealing that nothing of oas's
2:53 Kingdom remains in the desert now you
2:54 may not have had the same major shifts
2:56 as me but as long as you can explain why
2:57 you marked the shifts that you did
3:00 you're doing this right you're amazing I
3:02 am amazing once you get used to marking
3:03 shifts you'll want to shift to The Next
3:06 Step In The annotation process this step
3:07 will have you marking literary and
3:09 poetic elements down the leand side of
3:11 the page rather than just assuming that
3:12 you know what literary and poetic
3:15 elements are or what to Mark I'm going
3:16 to provide you with a list of literary
3:17 elements right on your [Music]
3:21 [Music]
3:23 screen did you know that we have a
3:26 poster with these yep we do of course
3:27 it's linked in the description down
3:29 below this video now that's the same
3:30 spot where you can see things like the
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3:43 get through your English classes all
3:46 right back to annotation
3:48 steps rather than just telling you to
3:51 practice labeling lit and poetic devices
3:53 down the side I'm going to model this
3:55 for you then you can try it with another
3:57 poem I'd encourage you to use the poem
3:58 for that he looked not aonor because
4:00 it's also a sign on it and it was used
4:03 on the 2014 AP Lit exam now here's how
4:05 I'd label lit and poetic elements down
4:06 the left- hand side of the poem If I
4:08 Were annotating as I'm reading the first
4:10 line I'm going to mark first person
4:12 point of view and setting when I get to
4:14 the second line I'm going to Mark frame
4:15 narrative because a new speaker is
4:17 introduced by the actual speaker in the
4:19 poem and I'm going to put the word Cura
4:21 there lines 2 through five I'm going to
4:24 label imagery and characterization in
4:26 lines 6 through 8 I'm going to label
4:28 characterization as the poem explores
4:30 the sculptor and the universal idea
4:32 since the ideas of Art and survival are
4:34 implied in lines 9- 11 I'm going to Mark
4:37 monologue and characterization and for
4:38 lines 12 through 14 I'm going to label
4:41 setting imagery and Universal idea since
4:42 desolation is referred to with these
4:45 labels on the le- hand side I'm focusing
4:47 on knowing what literary and poetic
4:49 elements look like in a poem now if you
4:51 don't know what literary and poetic
4:53 elements are here's a way that you can
4:55 Define them these elements are anything
4:57 an author presents to convey the meaning
5:00 of his or her text so literary elements
5:02 and poetic elements can often be used
5:04 interchangeably there are a few elements
5:05 that show up more in poetry than in
5:07 other literature these are things like
5:10 sound devices poetic forms Cura and
5:12 enjam but know that you can talk about
5:14 all literary and poetic elements when
5:16 analyzing poetry without having to
5:18 really differentiate between the two now
5:19 that you've practiced the first two
5:21 moves in annotating poetry it's time to
5:23 move on to the third one this particular
5:25 step will have you annotate
5:26 understandings and observations down the
5:28 right hand side of the page these
5:30 observations are going to be abstract
5:32 judgments you need to make inferences
5:34 based on the literary elements displayed
5:36 in the text that you see now rather than
5:38 just asking yourself what can I
5:40 understand based on this text I'm going
5:42 to give you some scaffolded questions so
5:44 that you can know exactly what to ask so
5:47 you can draw accurate inferences so when
5:48 you're going to make observations that
5:50 correlate with the literary elements and
5:52 text that you've marked here's what you
5:54 need to ask yourself based on this
5:56 particular section of text that includes
5:57 the literary elements that I've marked
5:59 what can I infer about a speak speaker
6:02 or specific character's traits a speaker
6:04 or character's relationship with others
6:05 a conflict or point of suspense or
6:08 tension a mood how this text influences
6:10 or relates to other potentially future
6:12 plot events how this language symbolizes
6:15 or embodies the events in the story or
6:17 the poem how this text reveals a
6:19 universal idea or insight and a
6:20 universal idea or Insight is just
6:22 another way of saying theme with these
6:24 questions you can actually make the
6:26 following observations based on what we
6:29 marked as important literary elements
6:30 let me model what this looks like for
6:32 you down the right hand side of our poem
6:35 O amandus the setting in line one sets
6:37 up a shift to the past and creates a
6:39 focus on an archaic atmosphere the cura
6:42 in line two mimics the separation of the
6:43 initial speaker into the frame narrative
6:45 and the cura in line three symbolizes
6:47 the broken image the second speaker is
6:49 describing the imagery in lines 4
6:51 through five highlights how the man who
6:52 the statue represents is someone whose
6:54 cold spirited and authoritative and it
6:56 reiterates that the image itself is
6:58 broken line six characterizes the
7:00 sculpture as being skillful and how his
7:02 art has survived which will later
7:04 contrast with the leader whose kingdom
7:06 has not lines 6 through 7 introduced the
7:08 universal ideas of Art and survival
7:09 which are what this poem is about and
7:11 line 8 continues to celebrate the artist
7:13 skill that was able to mock up the
7:15 Visage of the Tyrant lines 9 through 11
7:17 characterized oam Indus as a
7:19 narcissistic Tyrant and lines 12 through
7:22 14 introduce the Insight of desolation
7:23 at the hands of time and that very
7:26 little lasts these annotations will make
7:28 writing topic sentences for any poetry
7:30 essay incredibly easy so stay tuned for
7:32 that video but for now we have to
7:34 complete the last step of reading poetry
7:36 and annotating now that we finished
7:38 reading and dissecting the poem for
7:40 poetic elements and meaning we're going
7:42 to produce a universal Insight this step
7:44 has to be done after you read the poem
7:46 and some people know Universal insights
7:48 as theme so once you're done reading
7:50 your poem all you have to do is list out
7:52 universal ideas that the poem itself
7:54 relates to Universal ideas are abstract
7:56 Concepts that any work of literature
7:58 focuses on and explores I have a whole
8:01 video about finding these Linked In the
8:03 description down below the thumbnail
8:04 looks like this in the case of ozam
8:06 Indus we want to identify these
8:09 Universal ideas art power desolation
8:11 destruction and time once we list out
8:14 these ideas we want to ask based on this
8:16 poem what's the relationship between
8:18 some or all of these ideas answering
8:20 this question will give us a universal
8:21 Insight or in other words a thematic
8:23 statement we can then attribute this to
8:25 the poet to create this relationship you
8:26 can use the template that's about to
8:28 show up on the bottom of your screen to
8:29 make sure that this is done right every
8:32 time it's right here Universal insights
8:34 interrelate multiple ideas so for ozam
8:36 indas I could write a universal Insight
8:37 statement that looks like this Shel
8:40 writes amandus in order to illustrate
8:42 that only art has the power to overcome
8:44 the inevitable destruction that comes at
8:46 the hand of time this is the most
8:48 comprehensive way to digest poetry and
8:50 with practice it becomes really really
8:52 easy these annotations actually make
8:55 writing about poetry incredibly easy so
8:56 to see how all of these annotations
8:58 translate into thesis statements and
9:00 topic sentences you're going to want to watch
9:06 [Applause] [Music]
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