Assignment task: Give a close reading of the poem "a Soldier's Arabic" for Brian Turner
Elements of close reading
the genre is it a short lyric?
emotions -- strong emotions about something that a poet's passionate about.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Is it fairly straightforward? Is it A B A B C and C?
What is the stanza ends (with a rhyming). i.e. We repeat this pattern four times in each poetic line.
What you would see in a sonnet. Is it just something fairly short and lyrical that allows the poet to express his emotions naturally? We can also talk about poetic devices in the poem.
Consider similes, imagination, literary devices, exaggeration, metaphors, imagination draws attention to every single stanza, poetic creativity, quite sublime, personification.
radical contrast, exaggeration, poet's immense kind of scope to the poem, Hyperbole, enjambment, which is kind of a weird term but a useful one, because enjambment refers to when you have an idea, a thought, that he wants to express, and you don't stop at the end of the poetic line. Is there any pause here, or just keep going right across the line (enjambment).
Is it a romantic poem?
Main idea theme? Occasion of poem, time and place.