ANALYZING A POEM & GENERAL POETRY LINKS

CRITICAL READING: A GUIDE

"The process of analyzing a poem"...by Professor John Lye at Brock University in Canada

GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS

Compiled, edited, and cross-referenced by Robert Shubinski

POETRY ANALYSIS: A QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

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Poetry Links (Hishikawa site)

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FROST READINGS

->->Biographical sketch
->->Frost essay: "The Figure a Poem Makes" (in packet)

Critical excerpts (in packet)

->"Mowing" (17)

->"Mending Wall" (33)

->-->"Home Burial" (51)

->->"A Servant to Servants" (62)

->"After Apple-Picking" (68)

->->"The Fear" (89)

->"The Wood-Pile" (101)

"An Old Man's Winter Night" (108)

"The Oven-Bird" (119)

["Birches" (121)]

"Putting in the Seed" (123)

->->"The Hill Wife" (126-29)

->"'Out - Out'" (136)

"The Line-gang" (141)

"The Ax-Helve" (185)

["Fire and Ice" (220)]

["To Earthward" (226)]

"Two Look at Two" (229)

"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" (245)

["Once by the Pacific" (250)]

"Bereft" (251)

->""Acquainted with the Night" (255)

"Two Tramps in Mud-Time" (275)

"Departmental" (287)

"Desert Places" (296)

["Neither Far Out Nor In Deep" (301)]

["Design" (302)]

->"Provide, Provide" (307)

"The Most of It" (338)

->"Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same" (338)

"The Subverted Flower" (339)

"The Gift Outright" (348)

"A Considerable Speck" (357)

"Directive" (377)