Investigate

Investigate: Notice

Really, anything that you notice at all is worthy of noting here. Nothing is insignificant. This is a time to become just notice things--there is no need to ponder the significance of what you notice, or to consider the poet's intent. Just literally anything that catches your attention. 

Things to Notice in your DISRUPTion can include (but are not limited to):

• Capitalization (or lack of capitalization)

• repetition (anaphora) of words, phrases, sentence structures (parallelism)

• titles, subtitles, epigraphs, dedications

• references to dates, people, places, events

• the shape to poem takes on the page

• white space (or negative space)

• punctuation (or lack of punctuation)

• objects in the poem that might have symbolic significance (e.g. apples, water, animals, any imagery)

• Point of View (who/what is the speaker in the poem, and who is the "spoken to"?

• ANY literary or poetic devices employed by the poet. This can include (but is certainly not limited to):

  • • alliteration, allusion, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance

    • cacophony, cadence/rhythm, cliché, conceit, connotation, consonance, couplet

    • denotation, dialect, diction, and dramatic monologue

    • enjambment, and euphony

    • free verse

    • hyperbole

    • imagery and IRONY (dramatic, situational, and verbal)

    • juxtaposition

    • lyric poetry

    • metaphor, metonymy, metre, and mood

    • narrative/non narrative

    • onomatopoeia oxymoron

    • paradox, parallelism, persona, personification, and pun

    • refrain and rhyme (end, internal, imperfect, and sight)

    • satire, simile, sonnet, stanza, style, symbol, and synecdoche

    • TONE

    • understatement

    • verse

• Any form choices made by the poem, such as

  • line breaks

  • line length

  • spacing

  • stanza length