Guide to the analysis of poetry for students and readers
published on NARRATIVE RHYMES – poem by Umberto F. M. Cefalà

Poem
Guide to the analysis of poetry for students and readers

After years of composing I returned to
starting point, recovering to study analysis
the poetic text as it is taught in
schools. Actually, when I attended high school,
I always had many difficulties in understanding the demands
my professor. I wonder if after all these years
I can put those basics into practice!

For a better analysis of the poem I developed
a brief schematic illustration:

1. Understanding of poetry

SUMMARY ANALYSIS
- Argument - of the themes present in
poetry - author - opera

Paraphrase respecting:
- The order of subjects - grammar rules -
the replacement of literary words with those
the common language

2. Metrics and Syntax

DETAILED ANALYSIS
- The rhyme scheme - the rhythm and syntax (hypotaxis
or parataxis) - the rhythm of the verse ( enjambements )

3. Figures of speech

the most relevant

FIGURES OF SOUND

FIGURES OF MEANING

4. Theme

- Key words - the typical themes of the movements
poetic (stilnovistica poetry, etc.)

5. Overall Interpretation and insights

- Literary context - comparing
with other texts - biography of the author

Umberto F. M. Cefalà

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NARRATIVE RHYMES - blog was created in 2012 with the first works and romantic phrases inspired by classical poetry, thanks to the author Umberto F. M. Cefalà. Later in the 2013 pointed towards a creative line with the testing of the Open Source project that is of poems by multiple authors. Poetry 2014: the blogspot published My metaphors, a study of the figures of speech with new definitions and ad hoc examples; in the same year, to coincide with the Milanese works for the Universal Exhibition - 2015, the blogspot led EXPO project, concerning the representation of the most famous Italian dishes. In 2015 focused attention on those increasingly popular crafts as the grinder or the cobbler. It was also facing contemporary art with the spread of cultural events of all sorts, but always presented in a poetic. With poems 2016 he held particularly to highlight developments on environmental protection.


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