Friday, 4 September 2009

How should I approach the issue of voice in a poem? What do I look for?

Analysing
the voice of a poem is somewhat similar to analysing the narrator of a work of . The first step
is determining who is speaking and the point of view.

For point of view, you
need to loom at grammatical person first, which can be determined by pronoun
use:

1st person singular I, plural we
2nd person singular and plural
you
3rd person...





href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrator">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrator
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_analysis">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_analysis

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