Poetry

1. How confident am I in analysing poetry?
I'm quite confident in analysing poems, but sometimes I find it difficult to find evidence or reasons to explain my points.

2. Do I feel like I can confidently identify the various poetic devices?
Yes, I do. No problem.

3. What have we done that I found useful?
Well, I really liked the Ultimate Poetry Challenge in which we had to create our own poems. It really helped me with understanding how poems are created and how the various poetic devices can be used to create a certain feeling or tone in the poem. It made me realise how poets carefully make the poems and edit them to make them as good as possible. I also liked that we had to analyse our classmate's poem to increase our understanding of interpretation of poems and how that might differ from the poet's intention.

4. Anything I'm not confident with?
Like I said (typed, wrote, whatever) I find it difficult to back up my points on poetry. I feel like one quote is not enough evidence and sometimes I feel like I can't find the evidence in the poem for the point I'm trying to make.