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all right folks let's admit it reading
poetry is hard sometimes it seems like
the multiple ideas that are being
explored in any given poem are way too
complicated they often even come off as
so disparate that the poem doesn't even
and yet there are other times a poem can
seem way too concrete too simple but you
just know there has to be some
complexity in there somewhere so today
I'm going to begin guiding you on your
poetry Journey specifically as you Trek
through the process of writing your
poetry essay on your AP Lit exam right
now though I want to take a quick moment
and give a shout out to miss Franklin
and her students at PK young in Florida
I hope all of you blue Waves honestly
cherish your instruction knowing that
you have one of the best lit teachers in
the country guiding you as you study it
was also super awesome to meet Miss
Franklin when I was in California just
last month okay I want to take you back
to a Time the early 19th century to be
exact when Percy Bish Shelley and Horace
Smith agreed to write sonnets about some
ancient Egyptian ruins I've created some
prompts for both of these sonnets but
we're going to look at the first prompt
because that's going to be the one that
I'm going to trace throughout my poetry
series of course you can access these
props right down in the description now
before you ever read the poem on your
wood exam you want to actually read The
Prompt effectively you may think you
know how to read the prop because you
know what the words say but if you
really know how to read the prompt you
can typically leverage it to help you
read the poem significantly more
effectively so there are four steps to
reading the prompt well and you can
actually follow these steps for each one
of your props on your AP wood exam [Music]
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so you can make sure to own the reading
of the poems and the excerpts that
you're instructed to work with on test
day and because of this you can slay
each one of your essays as long as you
work with the prompt correctly just make
sure to complete all of these tasks
before you read the poem in front of you
so let's start with step one the first
thing you want to do when you break down
a prompt is to identify what is called
called the tagline tag just stands for
title author and genre in the case of
the prompt that we're working with we
want to identify Percy Shelley
Ozymandias and sonnet doing so will
fulfill this first step now quick note
here sometimes it may say poem in a
prompt but you may know that the
particular poem is a specific type of
poem and if you know the more precise
type of poem that is on the page show
your smarts and label that piece more
accurately notice the poem has 14 lines
then call it Asana see that the poem is
19 lines made up of five tursettes and a
quatrain well that's a villain is the
poem made of rhyming quatrain's
intelligramatic or emotional story sweet
it's a ballad you don't have to know
poetic forms for exam day but it
certainly won't hurt if you do and
that's all you need to do for step one
so let's actually move to step two step
two of breaking down a prompt is looking
for any background information in the
prompt that can help you understand why
the poem was created or what's happening
in the poem itself so in the case of
this particular Prophet we'd want to
identify information like the speaker in
the poem meets a traveler that accounts
his observations now this is an
important detail because it sets up a
frame narrative that's a story within a
story we want to note that the speaker
recounts the Traveler's observations
towards some ancient ruins and based on
the prompt we can know that this
particular poem does explore the ideas
of power pride in the passing of time
all of this initial information should
let us comprehend the poem much better
because we not only know the elements of
the narrative but also the ideas that
the poem is actually exploring so now
let's move on to step three which is
also super easy we need to find what we
are commanded to do by The Prompt and
the reason why this is so easy is
because the command element of the
prompt always starts with the word
analyze or the word analyzes so once you
find that word just underline from that
word until the end of the sentence that
it's in or if you're filling in an
organizer like I am you can copy down
the command word for word analyzes all
the way through the end of the sentence
now I have to give you a warning you may
think that this seems like a waste of
time but I promise you it's not here's
why first focusing on the word analyze
reminds you that you have to actually
analyze as you write it doesn't ask you
to summarize or describe or explain or
paraphrase so if you know what analysis
actually means and requires and focus on
this you'll be in better shape as you
write your paper and if you don't know
what analysis is well I'm going to tell
you all of its three steps right now
because it will help you when you write
your body paragraphs later analysis has
three phases the identification phase
the breakdown phase and the explanation
phase this is important for you to know
because you can actually structure your
body paragraphs in this way your topic
sentence is supposed to identify what
the author is doing and why the author
is doing it you have evidence that comes
after your topic sentence is going to
break down where the author is doing
specifically what you said the author is
doing and where it's seen in the text
and your commentary is going to explain
how the evidence actually conveys the
why you identified in your topic
sentence in my next poetry videos you'll
see how all this can be easily put
together and how every body paragraph
actually goes through the steps of
analysis every time now I do have a
second Point here finding the command
allows you to create a question that
will not only help you conquer the
reading of the poem but also conquer
writing the essay creating this question
which I like to call the conquer
question is the final step and most
important step in the whole breakdown
process because it will tell you exactly
what you need to know when you're done
reading the poem and actually generating
this question is what we call step four
in this process to generate a conquer
question you need to go into the command
that you just recorded and search for an
infinitive that's there an infinitive is
just the word two followed by a verb in
the case of the prompt that we are
working with the infinitive is to
explore once you find the infinitive you
want to look at the words only to the
right of it and ask yourself what can't
I know until I read the poem this
question that you ask must start with
the word what and this is because what
questions are much easier to answer than
why questions or how questions we're
trying to simplify the poetry reading
process so we're going to ask the
simplest question in order to do that
also remember you don't want to ask what
literary or poetic elements and
techniques am I looking for because
those phrases are to the left of the infinitive
infinitive
we only want to focus on what is to the
right of the infinitive for language so
if I were to do this correctly I want to
ask what can't I know from the word
Explorer all the way to time well let's
see do I know that Shelley is trying to
explore something because it says so in
the prompt yeah why the language is
right there do I know Shelley is
exploring the ideas of power pride in
the passing of time yeah why it also
says it right in the prompt do I know
what the complex relationship is between
power pride and the passing of time no
go not yet so this sets me up to know
that when I'm done reading the poem
that's about to follow I need to be able
to answer this question what is the
complex relationship between power pride
and the passing of time if I can answer
that even in the slightest sense I'm
going to be able to write this Essay
with significant ease so great you know
how to break down a prompt and you know
how to generate a conquer question to
help you read but that doesn't mean you
know how to translate all all this into
your writing but don't worry because
I've got you covered to learn how to
write your essays all you need to do is
Begin by checking out this video right here
here
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