Writing a Poetry Critique

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Writing a Poetry Critique
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• In order to become good poets, we must learn how
  to read great poetry.

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Just as you may need a plan of attack for your
Yu-Gi-Oh battles, you need the same in expressing
your ideas about a poem.

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Take a look at William Blakes The Tyger

• Who is the poem about?

• What does the speaker of the poem want to know?

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The Strategy

• Sentence 1- This is your topic sentence. It
  should have a subject and opinion.

Sentence 2- This sentence should have a concrete
detail. It will contain a specific detail from
the poem such as a quotation.
Sentence 3-4 This is where you can add your
commentary about your claim. Offer your opinion.
Sentence 5- This will serve as your concluding
sentence. You can wrap it up here.
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Lets try with William Blakes The Tyger
Sentence 1- The speaker in William Blakes The
Tyger ponders the character of a Creator that
could create a ferocious animal.
Sentence 2- He indirectly addresses the Creator
by asking the tiger, And what shoulder and what
art,/ Could twist the sinews of thy heart? (ll.
9-10).
Sentence 3- He suggests that there may be
something mysteriously wondrous about a Creator
that could make both the Lamb and tiger (ll. 20).
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Lets try with William Blakes The Tyger

• Sentence 4- By contrasting the tiger to the lamb,
  which is usually symbolized as an object of good,
  the speaker considers the tiger evil.

Sentence 5- Yet his question goes unanswered as
he ends by repeating his initial question.
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Put it all together into a paragraph!

• The speaker in William Blakes The Tyger
  ponders the character of a Creator that could
  create such a ferocious animal. He indirectly
  addresses the Creator by asking the tiger, And
  what shoulder and what art,/Could twist the
  sinews of thy heart? (ll.9-10). He suggests
  that there may be something mysteriously wondrous
  about a Creator that could make both the Lamb and
  tiger (ll.20). By contrasting the tiger to the
  lamb, which is usually symbolized as an object of
  good, the speaker considers the tiger evil. Yet
  his question goes unanswered as he ends by
  repeating his initial question.

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There was MY Yu-Gi-Oh challenge
Its your turn to put the strategy to use with
your critique!