How to Analyze a Poem

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  • Опубликовано: 12 май 2017
  • Intended for assist students in AP Literature and Composition. Explains how to analyze poems and pick off the important details of a work. Shortly after, there is a demonstration of a thesis statement formula, followed up with an example of poem explication utilizing Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
    Please pardon any spelling errors.

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  • @coolcaveman1992
    @coolcaveman1992 5 лет назад +219

    This is more than my English teachers have taught me in 2 years

  • @jojoschronicles5006
    @jojoschronicles5006 6 лет назад +122

    This is literally the best explanation ever, and one the best English lesson I have ever encountered. Dude you're a gift . Thank you!!!!

  • @rohankapoor773
    @rohankapoor773 4 года назад +65

    Thank you very much, I don't care how irritating and disturbing the music was, this actually helped me get better at this!

  • @mikeyamaro9035
    @mikeyamaro9035 5 лет назад +381

    I appreciate the video, but what's up with that music dude...

  • @lacebird9548
    @lacebird9548 6 лет назад +163

    "Read the damn poem!" - I want that framed on my wall XD

  • @SirDonald
    @SirDonald 4 года назад +131

    I didn't even notice the music until people pointed it out

  • @Colton.ontheadventure
    @Colton.ontheadventure 5 лет назад +81

    Night before the exam!!!

  • @sammars1862
    @sammars1862 6 лет назад +148

    PLLLLLZ MUSIC IS DISTURBING!!!!

  • @jehshroff3054
    @jehshroff3054 Год назад +2

    I love how this channel has 4 videos, one of them is the most helpful video I've seen for AP Literature and the other 3 are just StarWars videos

  • @suzanneofthesouthernisles1224
    @suzanneofthesouthernisles1224 6 лет назад +40

    Very helpful is clarifying what was puzzling to me for years. I would drop the music, though, or change it to something not distracting.

  • @teacherdowrich2028
    @teacherdowrich2028 3 года назад +24

    As a Literature teacher, I commend you on this video. It is exactly what I teach my students to do. The background music is a little distracting. It could've been softer.

    • @sharonmoteane9933
      @sharonmoteane9933 3 года назад

      Hi Miss(rs) Dowrich. Will you be so kind to assist me with the poem by Lesego Rampolokeng "Johannesburg". Thanking you in advance if you can assist in these trying times.

    • @nolnol815
      @nolnol815 2 года назад

      Distracting? The music was a little distracting? You’re being kind. True peer review to help him become a better instructor would be to just knock it off with the music all together. Silly attempt at what?

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  2 года назад +7

      @@nolnol815 dude I’m a PhD student in physics. This was just some high school project that caught the algorithm. Awfully aggressive on an 18 year old at the time. But you’re right in a way. I did knock it off with the poetry altogether.

    • @nolnol815
      @nolnol815 2 года назад +4

      @@benswolo6928 I thought your teaching method was very good. I wrote that. In fact, I hardly believed you were an adolescent. By your instruction, I thought you were a professional English teacher. My one and only single, solitary critique was the background music. Period. I hope you always return to poetry throughout your life. And share it with all the loved ones around you.

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  2 года назад +4

      @@nolnol815 No issues at all. Best of luck with your actual teaching. I could never deal with high schoolers in a classroom.
      I stick to laboratories and such nowadays.

  • @shadamiari6232
    @shadamiari6232 6 лет назад +21

    you are very authentic !! thanks a lot for the help!! i wish there was a way i could be in touch with you to help me further more. Thanks again !!

  • @therockz3221
    @therockz3221 9 месяцев назад +1

    The force is strong with this one. Thank you general kenobi

  • @MetalHeadSnoopy
    @MetalHeadSnoopy 6 лет назад +19

    “READ THE DAMN POEM” I need that on a shirt

    • @lovearc6363
      @lovearc6363 4 года назад

      Where can I buy it haha😂

  • @PinoBooba
    @PinoBooba 2 года назад +4

    Awesome video! Incredibly helpful for my poetry analysis that I have to work on.

  • @bronson5129
    @bronson5129 5 лет назад +33

    YEAAA WHO'S READY FOR TOMORROW!!!

  • @yuzuru525
    @yuzuru525 3 года назад +7

    the music made me feel like i was having military training

  • @Chirp-chirp
    @Chirp-chirp 3 года назад +2

    The music is fire idk what yall talking about it made me more focus. Plus his voice is calm so it doesn't set you off.

  • @Dw-rs9ed
    @Dw-rs9ed 2 года назад

    Very helpful. studying literature at A level next year without studying it for my GCSEs, this gives me an idea of how to analyse pieces of text.

  • @Deftonedd4
    @Deftonedd4 5 лет назад +3

    This was really the best tutorial ever.

  • @everythinggirly916
    @everythinggirly916 2 года назад

    This video is honestly really helpful. It made me feel more confident before writing my essay.

  • @hyunmin1497
    @hyunmin1497 3 года назад +4

    Teachers should teach like this bro 🔥🔥🔥

  • @sultanarazia1800
    @sultanarazia1800 5 лет назад +17

    I can't hear you for the music

  • @__________________________5718
    @__________________________5718 3 года назад +2

    you are the teacher i never had

  • @animeworld1901
    @animeworld1901 5 лет назад +4

    Great video. I really enjoyed the music it helps me concentrate on the lesson. Thanks a lot dude

  • @jodiaz3410
    @jodiaz3410 6 лет назад

    You are terrific at teaching poetry.

  • @rodpruitt8926
    @rodpruitt8926 5 лет назад +2

    Super helpful. Thax. Speaking of super, I think it's so cool that Bat Man has a youtube account.

  • @anonymousaccountacir6401
    @anonymousaccountacir6401 2 года назад

    I just downloaded Meriam bcoz of this legit video. Thank u so much for sharing your knowledge. 💯✨

  • @futto585
    @futto585 3 года назад

    BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS HELPED ME A LOT and tbh the music kinda helped idek why the dudes in the comment section are whining about it

  • @lifelearner45lloyd97
    @lifelearner45lloyd97 6 лет назад +1

    Love the How to Analyze a Poem Steps & the Poetry Google's.

  • @heberfenderful
    @heberfenderful 3 года назад

    AWESOME STUFF , MUCH NEEDED INFORMATION! 😃

  • @Ggirl416
    @Ggirl416 5 лет назад

    great info bro! thanks for helping all of us !

  • @nraishanzr3333
    @nraishanzr3333 6 лет назад +3

    You’re really good at this, I wish I could be. Great video! Thanks!

  • @omaroutbouzmoult6362
    @omaroutbouzmoult6362 6 лет назад +1

    i want to thank you so much for great job that you do

  • @francisfigueroa4579
    @francisfigueroa4579 3 года назад

    I like the music. It made me feel less fear and made me excited to learn.

  • @stayysid
    @stayysid 4 года назад +1

    11 seconds into the video and I already love it

  • @mariaangelagalvez4985
    @mariaangelagalvez4985 3 года назад

    Thank you so much for this. This is really helpful!!!!

  • @xMyLifeAsJoseexx
    @xMyLifeAsJoseexx 4 года назад +4

    I didn’t even notice the music thanks for helping

  • @koopiedoobie1416
    @koopiedoobie1416 3 года назад

    Can we please just appreciate the time that he had put into making this video to help us instead of whining about the music??? It doesn’t bother me at all! Y’all are just being dramatic

  • @MariyaLoveyah
    @MariyaLoveyah 5 лет назад

    What is your pencil grasp called?

  • @eshaalfatima557
    @eshaalfatima557 3 года назад

    It's been so helpful. Thanks so much

  • @zhihaolu6917
    @zhihaolu6917 4 года назад +2

    OMG, that's the poem I'm literally going to do!!! thankyou!!!!

    • @k.m2149
      @k.m2149 4 года назад

      lucky lucky lol

  • @Theophilus703
    @Theophilus703 3 года назад

    Thank you very much brother. In fact,you helped so much 💖💖❤💪

  • @mache8669
    @mache8669 6 лет назад

    God !! Where were u back when i was studying this alone

  • @topherlew
    @topherlew 3 года назад +1

    I appreciate the workmanlike approach to poetry analysis, and especially its utility in the context of an AP Lit/Comp class/test. However...this video, its theme and many of its details, exemplifies why students, and people at large, don't...read...poetry. The overall message here: poems have a "message", a "purpose", a "meaning", and it's my job as a reader to "crack" the poem, explain it, and why I think what I think about it.
    Is this what we should be teaching about poetry?
    Finally - at 7:54, our host falls into a trap, though I'm certain unintentionally, he seems a consummate professional, that many readers fall into when reading THIS VERY POEM...he mixes up the "message" of the poem (taking the less-travelled road makes all the difference!) with the poem's title ("The Road Not Taken"). In the hurry to quickly, efficiently, cogently and convincingly explicate the poem, he misses the work's central contradiction, the one that deepens the poem's meaning beyond the "life-lesson" status the poem represents to the vast majority of readers:
    Why is a poem, known for stressing the importance of choosing that which is uncommmon, against-the-grain, etc....the "road less travelled by"..., why is that poem entitled "The Road Not Taken"? NOT taken...not taken...doubt? Uncertainty? Regret? Perhaps the refusal to make either choice? Can we even trust the narrator?
    None of these challenging, beautiful, meaningful ideas can be explicated on an AP test.

    • @PvtRichardReiben
      @PvtRichardReiben 2 года назад +1

      I totally agree with you, but (as it sounds like you know) the AP is almost entirely assessment-driven, and "success" is based upon your test scores. Merely pondering doesn't equate to a passing AP test score, and (in my experience) most of the students in AP classes are hell-bent on earning a passing grade, not necessarily organic learning/growing through patient poetic appreciation. It's a massive bummer because in order to entice most of these kids, there has to be a grade-based incentive behind nearly everything I do. I was probably the exact same way in high school, but it sucks that there's little-to-no consideration for anything that's not immediately beneficial to them.

  • @dhruvmahesh6450
    @dhruvmahesh6450 4 года назад

    really helpful video dude!!! thank you

  • @abhinashdeep718
    @abhinashdeep718 6 лет назад +1

    Nice video mate keep it moving

  • @chritianmelgar
    @chritianmelgar 2 года назад

    I appreciate it! I've learned something on here

  • @karanveersingh5442
    @karanveersingh5442 4 года назад

    I really loved your video it helped me a lot Thank you

  • @claudememon9833
    @claudememon9833 3 года назад

    Bro people hating on the music.. it’s so good. The music made me hyper focus it was so good

  • @k.m2149
    @k.m2149 4 года назад +2

    I was paying attention so hard, that I didnt even notice the music until i read the comments haha

  • @nawallovato5956
    @nawallovato5956 3 года назад

    That was very helpful thank you 💜

  • @spicychemical1475
    @spicychemical1475 4 года назад

    why dont you make more videos? this is so helpful

  • @nuvesv6933
    @nuvesv6933 3 года назад

    So great, thank you!

  • @readea152
    @readea152 5 лет назад +1

    this was amazing !

  • @majaaudran2532
    @majaaudran2532 3 года назад

    Really good! Thank you.

  • @_Becca_in_Canada
    @_Becca_in_Canada 2 года назад

    Thanks man u saved my life ❤️

  • @danieldaniel-vb8rh
    @danieldaniel-vb8rh 5 лет назад +2

    God bless you a lot! what you have done it's incredible

  • @4inaftermath454
    @4inaftermath454 5 лет назад

    You sound like Miles Teller, also you're very helpful

  • @janohrca8875
    @janohrca8875 5 лет назад +1

    I don't know how to say this without being blunt but thanks, i liked this.

  • @palomaquinn5281
    @palomaquinn5281 2 года назад

    Thanks for this excellent explanation. May I ask if you offer online tutoring lessons? Thank you!

  • @mimicha9099
    @mimicha9099 4 года назад +2

    very helpful. Thanx!!!

  • @samualwilliamson369
    @samualwilliamson369 4 года назад +22

    These beats are 🔥

  • @shamilasaley2695
    @shamilasaley2695 3 года назад +2

    The music - I can't concentrate and I can tell this is good stuff🙉🙈

  • @mariya7301
    @mariya7301 8 месяцев назад

    Bravo pls continue to share other vids about literature n poetry

  • @ekanshsharma1449
    @ekanshsharma1449 4 года назад +1

    Wow man, thankyou so much

  • @adamnassor5450
    @adamnassor5450 4 года назад +1

    Really helped
    Thanks!

  • @JeanneLin
    @JeanneLin 5 лет назад +6

    The formula is so helpful for someone with a math brain like myself lol thank you for this!

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  4 года назад +1

      Funny enough, my major is in physics w/ a concentration in biophysics XD

    • @travis9629
      @travis9629 3 года назад

      BenSwolo69 hilarious

  • @maxding1381
    @maxding1381 Год назад

    Thank you this helped me pass PHYS 20BL

  • @leowabby4958
    @leowabby4958 3 года назад +6

    hi, could you analysis a poem called "Letters from home" by Grace Chua plsss? My exams are coming and I have no idea what the poem is talking abt😭

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  3 года назад +9

      I read over it. I'm no english teacher, I am a physics major in 4th year university at this point, but here's what I gleamed.
      It is a poem that has themes of naivity, time always flowing foward, and coming of age. It uses allegory, repetition, and rhyme scheme to portray a mother who is writing to a child who is out of the house, and afraid of letting him go into the dangers that the world has. I reccomend reading up on Daedelous and Icarous from greek mythology for the metaphor to click.
      Also be sure to check out some of my other content :)

    • @leowabby4958
      @leowabby4958 3 года назад

      BenSwolo69 but my literature teacher said that the boy who the mother is writing to, is dead.

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  3 года назад +2

      @@leowabby4958 exactly. thus the icarus metaphors :)

    • @leowabby4958
      @leowabby4958 3 года назад

      BenSwolo69 But thank you for taking the time and effort to read it:)

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  3 года назад +2

      leow abby the poem is a ballad to hindsight and regret that she can’t have one more day with the child

  • @sarahalizada3701
    @sarahalizada3701 3 года назад

    THANK YOU SO MUCH .

  • @4dr_14n2
    @4dr_14n2 5 лет назад

    Ty dude, very helpful

  • @decentangel2896
    @decentangel2896 3 года назад

    you're a gem 💎

  • @elizabethjoseph7030
    @elizabethjoseph7030 4 года назад

    Good analysis. Watch out for spelling errors! Imagery and permanence were misspelled a few times.

  • @MariyaLoveyah
    @MariyaLoveyah 5 лет назад

    Wow, you just changed your grasp to tripod! Congrat! lol

  • @edgar7671
    @edgar7671 2 года назад

    5:08 what’s the song?

  • @elle7037
    @elle7037 3 года назад

    Turning the CC captions are helpful if the music is too distracting

  • @rishiravi134
    @rishiravi134 3 года назад

    glad i found this

  • @micox298
    @micox298 5 лет назад

    So could your thesis be considered your first intro paragraph?

    • @fatou_matac
      @fatou_matac 5 лет назад

      pikachu xd maybe like a sentence or two but add a little more to the intro and you’re all set.

  • @amberlatimer2080
    @amberlatimer2080 5 лет назад

    thank you for the informing video you did. but the music was so distracting. I could not focus on what you were saying or anything.

  • @briathelion7302
    @briathelion7302 4 года назад +1

    Is this the Odd1sout lit teacher, Mr. Batman??

  • @SF-hb2kx
    @SF-hb2kx 4 года назад +4

    talk louder when the music goes up it was like a contest of who tf could I hear

  • @guyfawkes7949
    @guyfawkes7949 5 лет назад +1

    It is 'The Road Not Taken'
    , not 'The Road less taken'

  • @icedlemontea9922
    @icedlemontea9922 5 лет назад

    music is a little loud

  • @adamwhetren2848
    @adamwhetren2848 5 лет назад

    what is it needs to be 350-500 words..... :(

  • @PinoBooba
    @PinoBooba 2 года назад +1

    The music almost makes me feel cool analyzing a poem

    • @benswolo6928
      @benswolo6928  2 года назад +2

      Real gangsters go on to study physics ;)

    • @PinoBooba
      @PinoBooba 2 года назад

      @@benswolo6928 couldn't agree more.

  • @xpubgmobile2342
    @xpubgmobile2342 2 года назад

    music name please

  • @dividedskyplease
    @dividedskyplease 3 года назад

    @BenSwolo69 I'd love to see your take on The Thrill of the Chase by Forrest Fenn.

  • @patriciascottbess525
    @patriciascottbess525 3 года назад

    Thanks so much

  • @nureha
    @nureha 5 лет назад +1

    Poetry goggles!! Thank you

  • @iSpoofV2
    @iSpoofV2 5 лет назад +1

    For a moment there, I thought GOOSE WAYNE made this xD

  • @lifelearner45lloyd97
    @lifelearner45lloyd97 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks.

  • @MariyaLoveyah
    @MariyaLoveyah 5 лет назад

    I can only concentrate on your grasp, nothing else. lol

  • @astnne
    @astnne 2 года назад +3

    I don't think our teacher teaches this at school

  • @anitayang3721
    @anitayang3721 6 лет назад

    music is too loud

  • @zaberq6396
    @zaberq6396 5 лет назад

    Thanks dude

  • @benjaminwhoelse1785
    @benjaminwhoelse1785 5 лет назад

    nice one m8

  • @MariaVazquez-oq1hk
    @MariaVazquez-oq1hk 5 лет назад +9

    Teaches how to analyze poems.. can’t spell imagery

    • @nomanm.5884
      @nomanm.5884 5 лет назад +1

      still saves my english gcse

    • @Missmmmmmmmmmm
      @Missmmmmmmmmmm 4 года назад +2

      and mine sis, what are you doing for us?

  • @linzie2199
    @linzie2199 3 года назад

    Great video but I find the background music very distracting

  • @Astronaut21
    @Astronaut21 6 лет назад

    NO Music please