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HOW TO ANALYZE A POEM Read aloud the poem Title of the poem Who is speaking? To whom? About? Tone? End rhyme scheme? Theme? Images and symbols? Examples of the figurative devices? Genres of Poetry A poetic genre is generally a tradition or classification of poetry based on the subject matter, style, or other broader literary characteristics. Narrative poetry is a genre of poetry that tells a story. Epic poetry is a genre of poetry, and a major form of narrative literature. It recounts, in a continuous narrative, the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. Examples of epic poems are Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Poetry can be a powerful vehicle for satire. The punch of an insult delivered in verse can be many times more powerful and memorable than that of the same insult, spoken or written in prose. The Romans had a strong tradition of satirical poetry, often written for political purposes. Lyric poetry is a genre that, unlike epic poetry and dramatic poetry, does not attempt to tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature. Rather than depicting characters and actions, it portrays the poets own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions. Lyric poetry is usually a form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings. Though lyric poetry has long celebrated love, many courtly-love poets also wrote lyric poems about war and peace, nature and nostalgia, grief and loss. An elegy is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a funeral song. The elegy, as a reflection on a death, on a sorrow more generally, or on something mysterious, may be classified as a form of lyric poetry. - The authors point-of-view concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker, or teller, of the story or poem.1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective3rd person limited: the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the ot