Poetry is the most complex textual  form because it uses a specific macro language.

Analyzing a poem isn’t to take photos. The analysis of a poem implies for the reader ( the intelligent reader, who is able to read between the lines) : to understand why, for which reasons,  somebody has used language that way, and to explain why that use of language is functionally  and suitable to convey the message.

Here are some figures of speech : generally all figures of speech create a more vivid meaning.

-Asymbol is something concrete that relates something else.                                                                                                -   Asimileis generally used to better describe something, to provide a description and to help the reader to imagine the situation.                                                                                                                                       - - -   Apersonification attributes human qualities to something there isn’t human.                                                                                                                       -   Anirony is used to convey a situation less dramatic. It expresses something, stating it opposite.                                                 -   Animagery is an uncountable noun, and it implies all the words in the poetry, namely it is the sun of the imagines.                                                                                                                                                                                  -   Anallusionmakes an indirect reference to something.

 

 

Why did literature start ? Literature started as an oral form, it was not written.

So,.. how could people remember  ? Poet had to use language in a way people could remember. They ( Bards and minstrels )had to make what they composed memorable, therefore they used language in a way similar to today’s songs : they use a lot of alliterations, rhymes, assonances, incremental repetitions and refrains. So in this way people could remember words.  Oral poetry, composition were handed over from generation to generation : the language was concrete and simple and the topics of such literature were strikingly connected to their lives.

What was the most popular form of such literature?It was ballad. The attitude of dancing and singing entered with the entry of Christianity. Christianity had such a diffusion because it promised salvation, it gave a reason to live.

Literature is the expression of the community. Indeed on Sunday, the Day of the Sun, people went to church to celebrate the mass. People sang in Latin because Latin was the language of religion, the original language of the church. But most people were illiterate, that is they weren’t able to write and to read. So, what gave meaning to their praying? Their faith did. Their effort gained in meaning and in value.

 

The first form of drama were the celebration and the congregation of people that had community parties in which they sang and danced.