Explications
Here are two more exemplars for explications of poems.
https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nantucket.pdf
https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Axe-Handles.pdf
Try to use your skills in close reading, reading for tone, be comfortable discussing speaker vs. audience relationships. While we talk a lot about purpose in AP Lang, the focus in Literature will change from purpose to theme. How does the "speaker"(who is not the poet, but a persona created by the poet), the language, the form, etc all create a theme? Much like tone is a result of diction, figurative language, syntax, details, and diction; theme is created by the poet's choices. With literature you can also add things like symbolism and motifs.
https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nantucket.pdf
https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Axe-Handles.pdf
Try to use your skills in close reading, reading for tone, be comfortable discussing speaker vs. audience relationships. While we talk a lot about purpose in AP Lang, the focus in Literature will change from purpose to theme. How does the "speaker"(who is not the poet, but a persona created by the poet), the language, the form, etc all create a theme? Much like tone is a result of diction, figurative language, syntax, details, and diction; theme is created by the poet's choices. With literature you can also add things like symbolism and motifs.
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