1. Poetry

2. Aim:
How can we use “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” to practice analyzing poetry?

3. Opening Questions
How are “For My Lover” and “That Day” similar and different?

4. How to Analyze a Poem
I. Dramatic Situation A. Who is speaking? B. To whom is that speaker speaking? C. What is the situation? D. What is the speaker's tone?

5. How to Analyze a Poem Imagery Visual Auditory Olfactory Gustatory
Tactile
Organic
Kinesthetic

6. How to Analyze a Poem
III. Theme

7. How to Analyze a Poem
IV. Diction (word choice) A. Connotation (suggested meaning of words) B. Denotation (dictionary definition) C. Abstract (can only be understood intellectually) D. Concrete (words describing physical objects)

8. How to Analyze a Poem V. Use of figurative language Metaphor & Simile
Personification   
C. Irony   
D. Alliteration (repetition at beginning)
E. Onomatopoeia (word sounds like the actual sound)
   
F. Hyperbole (exaggeration)   
Allusion (reference to something)   
Pun (play on words)   
Paradox (contradiction)   
H. Oxymoron (self contradictory term)
Extended Metaphor

9. In pairs, take some time and analyze “For My Lover.”