Problem
How to Analyse a Poem help with two-column style note where, on one side, you make note of observations you've made while reading the poem. Then on the other side you try to interpret the observations. Take a look at the poem and the following set of notes made for the Margaret Atwood poem, "This is a Photograph of Me." You can pause the podcast while you read the poem. This Is A Photograph of Me By Margaret Atwood It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper; then, as you scan it, you see in the left-hand corner a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree (balsam or spruce) emerging and, to the right, halfway up what ought to be a gentle slope, a small frame house. In the background there is a lake, and beyond that, some low hills. (The photograph was taken the day after I drowned. I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.