Lesson
HOW TO WRITE A COMMENTORY OF A POEM (in the form of the essay)
ESSAY
I- Introduction
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II- Development
Axes
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III- Conclusion
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Introduction:
*We speak about the poet in the context of the poem .
*The circumstances of the poem if you have an idea about it.
* The most important is the major idea or theme developed in the poem.
*You give an outline of the poem and an outline of the essay announce the acts around which your essay shall be built. Usually there are no more than 3 axes.
The body of the essay:
We develop each access and in each access we study all the different aspects: meaning , style, and prosody.
We use the W-H questions as why and what with all the characteristic of the poem.
Conclusion:
A synthesis of the whole ideas and we mention if possible the works in which similar or opposite ideas have been treated by the same poets or the other poets.
***You can add if the poet addresses the readers’senses, emotions, or imagination or it can be both.. J
Good Luck
By Dmitchou