Sound & Sense: Chapter 2

1.Review the 5 preliminary suggestions for reading poems.

•Read the Poem more than once.

•Keep a dictionary by you and use it.

•Read so as to hear the sounds of words in your mind.•Always pay careful attention to what the poem is saying.

•Practice reading poems aloud.

2. List step in paraphrasing, and create paraphrases of several poems, showing how paraphrase helps to clarify the theme.

•To paraphrase a poem means to restate it in different language, so as to make its prose sense as plain as possible. The paraphrase should contain all the ideas in the poem in such a way as to make them clear and to make the central, or theme, of the poem accessible.

3. Explain how identifying the speaker and the occasion of the poem show the dramatic quality of the poetry.

•Identifying the speaker and the occasion of the poem show dramatic quality of the poetry because the speaker and the occasion might reflect the poets life, while the speaker and the occasion may only be something fictional that the poet thought up.

4. Explore the concept of a "central purpose" of a poem."

•The concept of a central purpose of a poem would be to figure out what the poem was written for. Without knowing why the poem was written we don’t get the full effect of the poem.

5. Consider the difference between the means and the ends in determining a central purpose of a poem.

•The means of determining a central purpose of a poem would be determining what the poet was trying to say, and then the ends of it would be whether or not you agree with it or not.

6.Determine which ideas in this chapter are exemplified in the following poems.

•The poem There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House best exemplifies paraphrasing because it is simple to put it in your own words and figure out the meaning of the poem.