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The Poetry Analysis Essay: Suggestions and Common Errors<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Review\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMajor Stages in Thinking and Writing About Literature\u201d beginning on page 19 in the text as well as the elements of poetry in \u201cPart III, Reading and Writing About Poetry.\u201d\u00a0 Note, with my exceptions, \u201cWriting a Research Essay\u00a0 on Poetry,\u201d page 1222.<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Length:<\/strong>\u00a0three to five pages.\u00a0 This is the suggested amount of development, not the number of pages to be filled.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Choices:\u00a0<\/strong>You must write about the work of a poet who is listed on the course schedule, but you should\u00a0not<\/strong>analyze a poem that we have already analyzed in class or one that we may at some point analyze in class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hint: papers by students who have spent little time researching the work of the writer they\u2019ve selected are apparent to good readers within the first paragraph most of the time.\u00a0 Ethos begins low, and the grade on the paper will be below average.\u00a0\u00a0 If you choose the most conveniently accessed poem, you\u2019re only making your life more difficult.<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Analysis is not a paraphrase or summary of the poem\u2019s argument, circumstance or plot<\/strong>.\u00a0 Summaries neither lend insight nor illuminate possible inferences, two purposes of analysis.\u00a0 For example, to say, \u201cBart Edelman\u2019s poem \u2018Chemistry Experiment\u2019 is about a chemistry experiment that goes wrong for some college students.\u00a0 He talks about the smoke, describing it as a \u2018black rope of smoke.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Such regurgitation does not serve the reader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This is not to say that you cannot paraphrase the poem to call the reader to the moments or ideas you wish to analyze.\u00a0 This is only to say that a paper which only paraphrases or summarizes is not fulfilling the assignment or the purpose of the assignment, to train you to think critically about text and learn to articulate clearly your critical thoughts.<\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Analysis is not a reader reaction<\/strong>.\u00a0 Reader reactions are just that: a reader\u2019s emotional, casually considered reaction to a work.\u00a0 Such reactions range from, \u201cThis poem was weird,\u201d or, \u201cThis poet\u2019s an idiot.\u00a0 He makes no sense,\u201d to, \u201cEdelman writes a wonderful poem about some college students who almost blow themselves up in chemistry class.\u00a0 The line, \u2018With the hazardous waste crew,\u2019 shows how serious the accident was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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None of the previous comments lend the reader a compelling interpretation of the poem.\u00a0 Relevant interpretations, which when supported with evidence are analysis, offer insight into how the poem is working, why it is significant beyond what we see on the surface, or reveal the instructional value of the poem, the wisdom we might take from it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A good draft of an analysis of this poem might begin, \u201cBart Edelman\u2019s poem \u2018Chemistry Experiment\u2019 illustrates just that, a chemistry experiment in a college classroom, to symbolize the seeming trauma of becoming an adult, especially in matters of romance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The poem you are analyzing will not organize your paper for you.\u00a0 Very often, novice writers will commit what we will refer to in this class as the\u00a0Quote and Comment<\/strong>\u00a0method, which is when the writer quotes or paraphrases a line from the poem being \u201canalyzed,\u201d comments on it, then quotes the next line and comments on it, and so on.\u00a0 It\u2019s nearly impossible to organize a paper into useful paragraphs using this method, and most writers who do employ it don\u2019t even bother to organize.\u00a0 The method is easy on the writer and hard on the reader.\u00a0 Other than someone who\u2019s being paid to grade the paper, few readers would endure more than the two paragraphs of this sort of essay.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A draft of a clear, focused, organized analysis is significantly more difficult to write when you have not alreadybrainstormed<\/strong>\u00a0general ideas and, afterward, drafted a rough\u00a0outline<\/strong>\u00a0of the ideas that might work.\u00a0 The more time you spend refining your outline, the more manageable your paper will be during the drafting process.\u00a0 You want to have a sense of how your paper should be organized and what your supporting details will be before you begin writing.\u00a0 Otherwise, you will find yourself frustrated and lost in your own paper.<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Research is not required for this first paper, but it is encouraged and it will be rewarded.\u00a0 Any consulted sources used in the paper must be cited in MLA format.\u00a0 See the text and Diana Hacker\u2019s website for MLA citations in\u00a0The Bedford Guide<\/em>\u00a0on line.<\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Just as poetry creates poets and novels breed novelists, the best way to develop an understanding of a good analysis is to spend time reading\u00a0good models<\/strong>.\u00a0 Included here are the authors whose works are the subject of good poetry analyses written by students and the first pages on which they appear in our text: Edwin Arlington Robinson, 703; Robert Browning, 746; John Masefield, 782; Sharon Olds, 866; George Herbert, 964; Mary Oliver, 1006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Poetry Analysis Essay: Suggestions and Common Errors 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Review\u00a0\u201cMajor Stages in Thinking and Writing About Literature\u201d beginning on page 19 in the text as well as the elements of poetry in \u201cPart III, Reading and Writing About Poetry.\u201d\u00a0 Note, with my exceptions, \u201cWriting a Research Essay\u00a0 on Poetry,\u201d page 1222. \u00a0 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Length:\u00a0three to five pages.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}