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The poem begins with the birth of a “girlchild” who is immediately given all the toys she will need to learn how to be a good mother and wife. She has a “GE stove” and a baby doll, which requires diaper changes. The girl is immediately being trained in her future subservient role.
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Poetry Analysis Worksheets are tools used to guide the analysis and evaluation of poetry. They provide a structured format for students or readers to engage with and understand a poem on a deeper level.
What is Poetry Analysis? A poetry analysis is the process of investigating a poem’s content, word usage, and format to improve your understanding of a piece of poetry and it’s multiple meanings.
A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem. Writing an explication is an effective way for a reader to connect a poem’s plot and conflicts with its structural features. This handout reviews some of the important ...
ANALYSING POETRY. THE SPECIFICITY OF POETRY 'The poetic' is not defined by "the special properties of the language of poems". It is defined rather by "the expectations with which one approaches lyric poetry, the conventions which govern its possible modes of signification" (Culler, 162). CONVENTIONS THAT GOVERN THE ANALYSIS OF POETRY.
‘Babysitting’ by Gillian Clarke is a two-stanza free verse poem about a babysitter who is having a hard time babysitting a child because of her own fears of abandonment. The entire poem is focused on the emotions of the babysitter and the emotions she projects on the baby.
