If the child is a student, then from time to time, studying literature, he is faced with the need to analyze the poem. Sometimes an adult needs it. For example, a friend, an amateur poet, asked to read his new creation on the blog and write a review. In order not to offend him with a soulless reply - OK, it’s better to spend some time, understand the theory of poetry with your schoolchild and begin to formulate your poetic preferences, having received a reference point. Although not easy, friendship and parental love are worth it! Maybe you want to later become an amateur critic and create your own blog.
When analyzing a poem, firstly, you need to know its full and correct name, read about the author, what time he lived, what kind of literary direction his work belongs to, what topics pita was interested in and why. Secondly, to tell about how exactly this poem was created , its history and to whom the poet dedicated it. Thirdly, to name the idea, topic and highlight the main idea, and all theoretical information must be confirmed by quotes and keywords. And finally, analyze the artistic means inherent in this poetic work, epithets, hyperbole, comparisons, etc. Determine the poetic size and characterize rhymes. If it is necessary to make a comparative analysis of poems, then it is done in parallel, characterizing both works on all of the above aspects.
In the period preceding the emergence of writing, each nation had works that retold each other verbally. People themselves gave them a special shape, such that it would be better to remember. The ability of poems to remain in human memory for a long time, unlike prose, is their important and undeniable advantage and property. An analysis of the poem involves revealing the secret of this property. He seemed to open the poet’s workshop, what poetic means he used to create the poem, how he combined them.
What makes a poem “not prose”? Firstly, poetry is different in that it has a rhythm. Percussion syllables alternate with unstressed syllables, forming a certain rhythmic ornament. The unit of this ornament is the foot. Stop is not a syllable, it is a group of syllables, they are united by one stress on all. It can include two to four syllables.
Well, let's compare: “Hey , white, huhhhhhhhhhhh gal?” The alternation is: | _ | _ | _ the first stressed syllable alternates with one unstressed syllable. The foot consists of two syllables - one stressed, the other unstressed. In Russian versification, such a two-syllable size is called trochee.
Now let's say the same prose: White and white, where are you going? Alternation: | _ | __ | _ | _ first stressed syllable, then unstressed, again stressed and two unstressed ... In general, the ornament does not work. The stress does not obey the rhythm, the foot is not formed, there are no identical repetitions.
Foot is the smallest unit of verse. A verse is a single poetic line. The number of feet in it is taken into account, determining the size, making an analysis of the verse.
Russian classical poetic sizes include trochees and iambic, whose foot consists of two syllables. As well as anapest, amphibrach and dactyl, these sizes of the foot contain three syllables.
Of course, in order to analyze the poem, it is necessary, if not to like poetry, then at least to understand it a little, to have a literary taste and intuition. Often, even professional writers and critics come to a standstill and do not know how to explain this or that poetic image. Poetry is written in a complex language, therefore it needs to be commented on, but it is impossible to fully understand the poetic image . Mystery and magic will surely remain, which will make the heart freeze from beauty and delight.