- Author and title of the poem.
2. The history of the creation of the poem (when it was written, for what reason, to whom it was dedicated).
The place of this poem in the poet’s work or in a series of poems on a similar topic (with a similar motive, plot, structure, etc.)
3. Theme, idea, main idea (what the poem is about). If the author belongs to any literary grouping: symbolist, acmeist, futurist, then it is necessary to select examples proving that we are dealing with a work of a symbolist poet, acmeist or futurist. Quotes from the text confirming the conclusions.
Poem theme:
– scenery;
– socio-political;
– love / intimate;
– philosophical.
4. Artistic means with which these images are created:
What vocabulary does the author use:
– household, everyday
– literary, book
– journalistic
– archaisms, obsolete words
5. Composition of the lyric work.
It is necessary:
– to determine the leading experience, feeling, mood, reflected in the poetic work;
– to find out the harmony of the compositional construction, its subordination to the expression of a certain thought;
– determine the lyrical situation presented in the poem (the hero’s conflict with himself; the hero’s inner lack of freedom, etc.)
– to determine the life situation, which, presumably, could cause this experience;
– to highlight the main parts of the poetic work: to show their connection (to determine the emotional “drawing”).
The composition of the poem, its division into stanzas (how the meaning of the poem and its division into stanzas are related).
Does each stanza represent a complete thought, or does the stanza reveal a part of the main thought.
The meaning of the stanzas is compared or contrasted.
Is the last stanza significant for revealing the idea of the poem, does it contain a conclusion.
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6. Poetic vocabulary.
It is necessary to find out the activity of using certain groups of words of common vocabulary – antonyms, archaisms, neologisms, homonyms, synonyms.
– to find out the degree of closeness of the poetic language with the spoken language;
– to determine the originality and activity of the use of trails.
