How confident you are in analyzing poetry?
Between 1 to 10, I'll give myself a seven. Honestly, I was completely blur about poems when I was in Year 10. Since we are able to analyze our friends' poems without any direct help, I became more confident after presenting about it. Knowing to say what a poem is about is just an interpretation also made me more confident, since there are no real wrong answers.
If you feel you can confidently identify the various poetic devices?
I feel I can identify most of the required poetic devices in a poem, but some of them such as imagery and assonance I still am not clear.
What we've done that you've found useful?
Actually writing the poem itself helped a lot, instead of analyzing a poem and identifying the poetic devices used. Writing allows us to create, not just recognize. And if the poetic devices we formed is correct, we know for sure how to recognize one. Also, the challenges of exchanging poems and judging each other's after writing one was useful; knowing that I've missed several poetic devices they included made me learn my mistakes.
Anything you're not confident with or sure of?
Poetic devices such as imagery and assonance. I'm also not sure about oxymoron, whether it can be written in a different structure. Instead of "dark light," can it be a phrase such as "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep?"
