Steps to Analyze a Poem
Breaking Down Poetry
Overview
Short lesson on analyzing love poems
Love Poems
Explain how to break down poems and allow students to refer back to notes or the website provided.
Students will pick a poem and do a short analysis of it.
1. Student will use website attatched to find a love poem that they find interesting and that they want to find the true meaning of.
2. Students need disect the poem and write out the meaning of each line of the poem, then write at least one paragraph summarizing what the author meant in the poem.