Poetry Study Goals

• Recognize the theme of a poem faster
• Understand the tone quicker
• Recognize allusions
• Know more terms
• Be able to understand the poet's overall message faster

After reading through the poetry questions in Peterson's AP English, I quickly realized what I needed to work on with poetry. When asked to find the theme of the poem, I had to re-read the poem a few times to fully understand what the theme was. I also had to do this when it came to recognizing the tone. The allusions were much harder for me to find. That is something that I most definitely need to work on this year. Same goes for the terms. Although I recognized a lot of them, there were still a few that seemed important to know. Overall though, it wasn't as bad as I thought.