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GUIDELINES FOR TEXTUAL ANALISIS

1.       Consider the title and see what expectation it creates about

ES. Just considering the title expect the poem to be about something in spring , probably when spring has just started (early spring).

2.       Read the poem at least twice in order to be sure to have understood what it’s about.

Look for the new words, be able to translate each line, try to find some connection between the content.

3.       Write the denotative analisis of the poem ( in your own words say what the poem is about).

The poem is expressed by a speaking voice in the first person who says he or she heard the notes of nature while he was sitting in a grave.

The speaking voice was in a good mood, thinking of samething pleasent when suddenly his or her mind.

4.       Structure analisis ( you describe the component parts of the text and say what function of each part is).

The poem consists of (is made up of, is organized into, NOT is divided into) six quotrains ( is a stanza made up consisting of four lines each) where the poet at first provides the reader with the description of the pleagent spring landscape and on the last part invites him or her to refect on the relationship between man and nature.

There for  the poem is partly descriptive and partly reflective. The reflection invited is anticipated in the refrain of the second stanza, “what man has made of man”.

5.       Connotative analisis: which consists in:

·         All that concerns sound devices: kind of vowels sounds rhyme scheme, rhythm, assonances and alliterations, pause and punctuation, enjamblement, run-on-lines, and-stoplines,

→explain what is the effect they produces and EXPLAIN HOW THE CHOICE IS MADE ADD MEANING TO THE TEXT.

·         Semantic level ( consider word choice Latinate words or Anglosaxon words, semantic fields metaphorical use of words, any words recurrents what verb tenses are used, effect of this choices.

·         Syntactical level(word order), demotions from the norme, punctuation (desh), pauses.