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Interpretation of Poems:

Interpretation of Poems:. Locating a Poem’s meaning-. A poem’s meaning can be easy to find if you look at the poet’s: Word choice Use of imagery symbolism. Word Choice:. How and where the words are written in the poem. What do the words suggest (positive, negative, both).

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Interpretation of Poems:

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  1. Interpretation of Poems:

  2. Locating a Poem’s meaning- A poem’s meaning can be easy to find if you look at the poet’s: Word choice Use of imagery symbolism

  3. Word Choice: • How and where the words are written in the poem. • What do the words suggest (positive, negative, both). • Helps to determine the author’s tone/mood of the topic. • Provide clues for the theme or lesson to be learned from the poem.

  4. Imagery: • Sight • Sound • Taste • Touch • Smell • Helps you to visualize mentally what the poem is about • Focuses on everyday experiences and background knowledge to help you in determining the meaning.

  5. Symbolism: • Represents something else • Poem’s have hidden meanings • Look at the information written in the poem to see if any of the objects can or do suggest another meaning.

  6. Word choice, imagery, and symbolism all aid in evaluating the purpose of the author in writing the poem.

  7. The Road Not Takenby Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

  8. Then took the other, as just as fair, And perhaps having the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

  9. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet, knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

  10. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

  11. Imagery: • Yellow wood • Grassy • Morning • Leaves • Step • Black • Sigh • Two roads

  12. Word Choice • Sorry • Long I stood • Took the other-just as fair • Better claim • Wanted wear • Passing-about same • Kept the first • Doubted • Telling-sigh • Less traveled by • Made all the difference

  13. Symbolism • Two roads • Choices-easy road or more challenging road • Took harder • Made that person a better person • Was his own individual

  14. Other • Metaphor-roads-life-choices • Easy-hard • Right-wrong • Good-bad • Individual-follower of others

  15. Interpretation: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost shows how a person always has a choice. He used the two roads in a wooden area to aid him in his hidden meaning of the poem. When looking at where the two roads lead, the speaker decided to make his own path and not follow what others before him had done. Although it was a more difficult path, the speaker ended up making the right decision for him. He chose what he wanted in life and not what was maybe expected of him or anyone else.

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