Poetry Study Goals:
- Read lines how they are written, not how each line ends. (punctuation)
- Find major themes/ideas
- Keep up with figurative language and understand all allusions
- Understand literary elements
- Read through the poem at least twice, and find something I didn't catch the first time
I chose these things because I feel that if I conquer each one, I will be able to completely conquer poetry itself. It all starts out with the basics though. First, I need to start reading poems with the correct punctation, a lot of the time I just place an imaginary period at the end of each line, and things don't flow and make a complete thought. I also feel if I took an extra second to think about the poem and find the major theme, all the contributing factors to it would pop out a lot easier at me and I would be able to dissect the poem more easily. Next, I need to work on language and knowing what certain words and ideas are alluding to in the poem. That will help me understand the poem as a whole. Also with the basics, literaty elements are very important. Just the way poems are simply written have meaning, and once I am able to figure out the way they are written, I can read the poem in a more fluent, understandable way. All of these go to show why I need to read through the poem at least twice, so that I can for sure pick up on each different goal.
These are good goals!
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