诗歌阅读分析方法.doc

PAGE  PAGE 8 1. Poetry is the most condensed and concentrated form of literature, saying most in the fewest number of words. 2. Reading the Poem: When you read a poem, pay attention to some basic ideas:Voice (Who is speaking? How are they speaking?)Stanzas (how lines are grouped)Sound (includes rhyme, but also many other patterns)Rhythm (what kind of beat or meter does the poem have?)Figures of speech (many poems are full of metaphors and other figurative language)Form (there are standard types of poem) 3. Denotation and Connotation: The average word has three components parts: sound, denotation, and connotation. Denotation is the dictionary meaning(s) of the word; connotations are what it suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meaning. It acquires these connotations by its past history and associations, by the way and the circumstances in which it has been used. 4. Imagery: Poetry communicates experience and experience comes to us largely through the senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, and touching). Imagery may be defined as the representation through language of sense experience. The word image perhaps most often suggests a mental picture, something seen in the minds eye - and visual imagery is the most frequently occurring kind of imagery in poetry. But an image may also represent a sound; a smell; a taste; a tactile experience; and an internal sensation. 5. Rhythm and Meter: 1). Rhyme is the repetition of sounds in two or more words that appear close to each other in a poem. 2). Types of rhyme:*Alliteration (头韵) is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words in a line. as in tried and true, safe and sound, fish and fowl, rime and reason,*Assonance (腹韵) is the repetition of vowel sounds in a line ending with different consonant sound as in as in mad as a hatter, time out of mind, free and easy, slapdash,* Consonance (辅音韵) is the repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of w