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December 4, 2017
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A critical analysis is basically an evaluation of the effectiveness of a certain work. Its purpose is to carefully examine a work of literature ( literary analysis). Since it is a sonnet you are tasked to make a critical analysis about then, you should break down the poem and study its parts to give the evaluation or opinion of the entire piece. You may ask:
- What is going on in the poem?
- Who is affected by what is going on?
To critique a poem, one should read it several times to understand what the speaker is saying or what the main idea of the poem is. In most cases, the title will give you the summary or general meaning of the main idea of the poem.
Let us do this step by step:
The introduction should try to capture the reader's interest. You may want to use a quotation, a provocative question, a brief anecdote, or a startling statement.
The thesis statement tells the reader what to expect: it is a precisely worded declarative sentence. It is also your reaction to the poem.
Example:
The sonnet demonstrates the danger of excessive pride.
The poem reveals the ambiguity of man's relationship with nature.
The poet uses the poem to treat the increasing issues of racial discrimination.
Tone refers to the implied attitude towards the subject of the poem. It could be hopeful, pessimistic, dreary or worried.
To identify the theme, you need to consider or study the entire poem including its title. The poem you are analyzing could be about losing innocence, growing old, or importance of preserving the environment. The overarching or major theme of a poem can come out clearly or it can be hidden in its presentation and words.
The speaker in a poem can be an elderly person, a child, a shepherd, a student, a swordsman, a sailor, a milkmaid, an animal or an object such as a hair, a place or a mountain. Speakers in poems speak differently.
Refer to https://jeanillec.blogspot.com/2017/11/components-of-sonnet.html for the exposition, metaphor, twist and couplet.
Poetry uses a wide range of literary devices which include personification, metaphor, simile, metonymy, irony, paradox, oxymoron, litotes, allusion, synecdoche, hyperbole, etc. Therefore, it is highly important to analyze the use of figurative language in the poem.
Cite actual lines from the poem to support your thesis. This will make your critical analysis credible and strong. Readers will get clues as to where your thesis statement came from because it will have adequate supporting evidence.
This is where you discuss the poem further using the literary theories assigned to you.
The conclusion gives your essay a sense of completeness. Make a relevant comment about the poem you are analyzing, but from a different perspective. Do not introduce a new topic.
Draw conclusions from your analysis. Tell readers the goal or theme of the poem that you are analyzing; tools used in conveying the main idea or theme; how they are used and whether or not they were effective.
Guidelines
1. Make a creative presentation of the poem. This must not contain a page number as this is simply an attachment. This is found at the last page. Here's a sample. https://jeanillec.blogspot.com/2018/11/sijo-2018.html
2. Introduction (at least 3 paragraphs), Summary (at least 5 paragraphs), Analysis (at least 10 paragraphs) and Conclusion (at least 3 paragraphs). The paragraphs must NOT be labelled as to whether it is introduction, and so on. The analysis must run through free flowing paragraphs. A Bibliography (WORKS CITED) must be provided after the essay using the APA format.
3. Your name must be written on the upper left on the first page before the title.
4. Use Times New Roman 12pt; double spacing; justified; short bond paper (8.5 x 11 inches).
5. The Draft must follow the guidelines and is due on December 13,2018.
5. The Draft must follow the guidelines and is due on December 13,2018.
6. Corrections will be made in the draft and thus must be rewritten.
7. The Draft must be passed together with the rewritten or final output.
8. Final output is due on January 7, 2019.
Melanie Priceless
ENG 10, Teacher Jeanille Cogtas
Third Quarter Literary Analysis Paper
13 December 2018
Impressions of Ordinary Life
One of the sweet comforts in life is curling up in a favorite chair with a short story that will carry us away from our everyday lives for an hour or two. On rare occasions, we find a tale that mirrors real life in such a way that we are strangely comforted by the normalcy reflected in the words. A perfect example of a story about ordinary life that will soothe the soul in search for some insight on understanding human behavior is Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog.” This piece is definitive of the literary period of realism during the late nineteenth century that was influenced by this brilliant writer and others such as Guy de Maupassant and Kate Chopin. This style of writing has such a mass appeal because the “characters in [these] novels (and in short stories) wear recognizable social masks and reflect an everyday reality” (Charters 997). In his simple anecdote of a chance meeting between a middle-aged, chauvinistic, repeat-offender......
Works Cited
Charters, Ann. “Appendix 2: A Brief History of the Short Story.” The Story and Its Writer: An
Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 995-1002.
Chekhov, Anton. “The Lady with the Little Dog.” [First published, 1899.] Rpt. The Story and Its
Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 143-155.
Ford, Richard. “Why We Like Chekhov.” [First published, 1998.] Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An
Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2003.
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS
- Components of a Sonnet
- Shakespearean Sonnets II
- Shakespearean Sonnets
- Eventualities of a Crushed Childhood: A Compilation of Sonnets
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