Analysis of the poem is a sure way to understand it

If the child is a student, then from time to time, studying literature, he encounters the need to analyze the poem. Sometimes an adult needs it. For example, a friend, an amateur poet, asked me to read his new creation on the blog and write a review. In order not to offend his callous rejection - OK, it's better to spend some time, to understand the theory of poetry together with your schoolboy and begin to form your poetic preferences, having got a starting point. Although this is not easy, but friendship and parental love are worth it! Maybe later he wants to become an amateur critic and make his blog.

Doing an analysis of the poem, first, you need to know its full and correct name, read about the author, at what time he lived, to what literary direction his work belongs, what topics interested him and why. Secondly, tell about how this poem was created , its history and to whom the poet devoted it. Thirdly, to name the idea, the topic and highlight the main idea, and all the theoretical information must be confirmed by quotations and key words. And, finally, to analyze the artistic means inherent in this poetic work epithets, hyperbolas, comparisons, etc .. Determine the poetic size and characterize the rhyme. If it is necessary to make a comparative analysis of the poems, then it is done in parallel, characterizing both works in all the above-mentioned aspects.

In the period preceding the origin of writing, each people had works that retold each other verbally. People themselves gave them a special form, so that you can better remember. The ability of poetry to remain in the memory of a person for a long time, in contrast to prose, is their important and indisputable dignity and property. Analysis of the poem includes disclosing the secret of this property. He as though opens a workshop of the poet, what poetic means he used at creation of a poem, as them combined.

What makes a poem "not prose"? Firstly, poetry is different in that it has a rhythm. Shock syllables alternate with unstressed ones, forming a certain rhythmic ornament. The unit of this ornament is the foot. Stop is not a syllable, it is a group of syllables, they are united by one stress at all. It can include two to four syllables.

Well, let's compare: "What about the white, how-to-you?" Alternation is: | _ | _ | _ the first stressed syllable alternates with one unstressed syllable. The foot consists of two syllables - one percussion, the other unstressed. In versification in Russian, this disyllabic dimension is called trochee.

Now let's say the same thing with prose: Bely Zaz, what would you do? Alternating: | _ | __ | _ | _ the first stressed syllable, then unstressed, again percussion and two unstressed ... In general, the ornament does not work. The stress does not follow the rhythm, the foot does not form, there are no identical repetitions.

Stop is the minimum unit of the verse. A verse is called one poetic line. The number of stops in it is taken into account, determining the size, doing the analysis of the verse.

The Russian classical poetic dimensions include trochees and iambs, the foot of which consists of two syllables. And also anapaest, amphibrachia and dactyl, these feet contain three syllables.

Of course, in order to analyze the poem, if you do not like poetry, then at least a little understanding of it, have a literary taste and intuition. Often even professional writers and critics come to a standstill and do not know how to explain this or that poetic image. Poetry is written in a complex language, so it needs to be commented on, but it is impossible to fully understand the poetic image. Mystery and magic will remain, which will make the heart freeze from beauty and delight.