GUIDE LINES FOR TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

1) Consider the title and see what axpectation it creates about the possibile content of the poem.

Es.: just considering in the title I aspect the poem to be about something happening in spring, probably when spring has just starter.

2) Read the  poem and list twice in order to be sure to have understood what it is about:

-Look for the new words.

-Be able to translate each lines.

-Try to find some connect between the content and the title.

3) Write the denotative analysis of the poem (In your own words say what the poem is about)

 Es.:The poemi s expressed by a speaking voice in the first person who says he/she heard the notes of nature while he was sitting in a grove.

The speaking voice was in a good mood thinking of something pleasent when suddenly his/her mind was crossed by some sad thought.

4) Structural analysis (You describe the component part of the text and say what the function of part is.)

Es.:The poem consist of (is made up of, is arranged into, is organized into) six quatrains (it’s a stanza consisting of four lines each) where the poet at first povedes he readre with the description of pleasent spring landscape and in the last part invites him/her to reflect on the relationship between man and nature.

Therefor the poem is partly descriptive and partly reflective.

The reflection invited is unticipating in the refrain of the second stanza.

5) Connotative analysis which consists in:

a) Phonological level: All that concernes sound devices:

-kind f vowel sounds

-consonance sounds

-rhymes scheme

-rhytm

-assonance

-alliteration

-pauses and puntuation

-run on lines

-stopped-lines

Explain what the effect they produce is and explain how the choices made add meaning to the text?

b) Semantical level :

-consider word choise

-Latinate words or Anglosaxon words

-semantic fields

-metaphorical use of the words

-what verbe tenses are used.

c) Syntactical level (Deviation from the normal puntuation, proses,invertion.)