Poetry Analysis Essay: the Relationship between Form and Content
If you have been assigned with the task of writing a poetry analysis essay you may be wondering where to begin and what details you should cover when discussing a particular piece. Here are some tips that you can use to make this task more manageable and, in the course of your writing, gain a deeper understanding of the particular poem you are discussing.
Many students will analyze a poem using a few common factors.
These include:
- The language that is used in the piece itself including the choice of specific words by the poet;
- Specific imagery that the poet chose to include in the poem;
- The social factors that may have affected the poet when writing a specific poem.
This is the content part here and all of these factors are very important for you to look at when you are writing a poetry analysis essay and all three of them look at the same element: the actual words that the poet used. However, when you limit yourself to examining the language itself, there is a lot of meaning and nuance that you are potentially missing out.
