The Secret to LITERATURE (oh no)

[2a21benjamin]

share tricks to the trade? wahaha random.

[Sean Lee 2A16]

I'm not sure about unseen poetry, but here's a rather drastic method I used over the weekend just before the last Literature test.

Go up to someone very quiet and obedient, who takes down lots and lots of notes in class (eg. 2A15 Khoo Hoe Kang). Ask him nicely for his notes, and go and make photocopies of them.

Then bring home the photocopied notes and you can mug all you want.

[2Climdejun18]

Dear People,

guess i'd just try explaining on how to analyze unseen poetries. don't blame me again i mean (duh)

Unseen Poetry consists of their different stanzas which provide different set of ideas, which are meant for us to find out. The Subject Matter would roughly be shown on the title, and it's your job to find out what message is the reader trying to convey. Basically, the subject matter can be figured out easily, if you can grasp hold of the meaning of the poem when you glance through like 2-3 times.

Then, tackle on SPECS slowly.

Subject Matter[/u]
Start off with trying to find out the rough idea of the poem. Establish your reason of why you start out with such an idea with yourself. Basically, try to reason out with yourself how you will be able to deduce such a subject matter. Once you can support your own view points of the poem, you will be sure to establish at least 75% of the Subject Matter correctly.

Purpose[/u]
Let's say we don't know ANYTHING about the random Poet who has wrote this "thought-provoking" poem. let us think and rethink about the subject matter, is the poet trying to rule out something, to tell us something- to appeal that e.g (war: war is bad, using it's blood imagery, hints of tragic) within the poem, try to figure out the purpose of this poem.

Emotions
(OHMYGOD) kind of reasons, like those simple imagery, subject matter, craftmanship, title, purpose all comes into one here. You have to really get the meaning of the poem clearly before tackling this. Normally, the emotions are not really shown and stated obviously, and gives you "read in between the lines" meaning that also tries to touch your heart and elude different emotions. It will sort of blend in with the original idea of why the others looked at the poem. There's no wrong or right, it's whether you can support your idea here.

Craftmanship
Techinally, it starts off with this craftmanship that spreads into SLIMS- give a analyzed concept into your brain and concoct it. and start on
Structure: Rhyme Scheme- what does it do/ style of writing- does it make you feel something else, what ..../

Language: Touching on this, The diction of words comes alive. What word did the writer specifically use to create such an impact? Alliterations, and any random literature devices used must have a goal in doing that. Nouns, adverbs, adjectives are crucial to be "listed" out so they can be reasoned as conveying...

Imagery: Basically, I think Imagery: YOUR INFERENCE. just like history, perspective towards each poem are different, me and my group mates doing an analysis (had) experienced conflicts on the different view points. But, both were right in the end- but of course don't cook up some ridiculous random definition of Imagery. You must closely relate it to the SPE and E has to lean on Imagery to continue. Personification. and every other literature device you can see.

Movement Rhythm- Falling Rhythm... to make things seem depressed, heavy?/ Light Rhythm- catchy; optimistic and happy event?

Sounds- the aurual part of the poem. like just try to pick out a few of the Sounds that come and "is being heard" when you read the poem.


Summary
ALL THE SPECS, come here. adding in your own opinon statement if you want. Establish the SP well, with State Evidence and Example. (if i'm correct)

[2adanieltan08]

Actually , unseen poetry mainly depends on how you or any other person you might have never known of see in the poem.
As the supporting basis and information is very little , etc no poet background info and also no explicit reasons stated there and then on why the poet decided to do this and that, thus not much can be derived , or can even be infered from the poem , except its general meaning to the massesT
Take . for example , the poem on charity as published on the other post.
It might , as the poster described , mean poverty as a scary and also depicts it paritally connected to fear. However , different people form different points of life might have different thoughts of the poem. Me , for instance , feels that the poem might in fact have been stating a general point of view on the sensitive issue of charity.
The poet depicts the persona as one who is scared, shy and also lacking the courage to help the people in poverty, and to me this can also be a brief overview of how charity is to people.
Charity might be a meaningful and the best solution to reducing the masses of poverty, but it has one big drawback : not every one has the financial suport (the persona gave her a coin , and it already meant a lot to her ) and the courage to donate (the persona running away after giving the woman the coin ).
After all my mumbling , I have only one point to make regarding unseen poetry :
Unseen poetry is meant to be seen with different perspectives , and as long as you have the evidence to support your stands , unseen poetry can be thus understood without much difficulty.


L0L _did i overdo it ? =)_

-)B@CK~ST@B(-
f33l th3 p@1n .
t@st3 th3 1njust1c3.
Wr1th3 1n @g0ny.

[2afanyi10]

I have three strategies for dealing with unseen poetry.
Firstly, you can join the MMORPG (Massive Mugging Only Real People's Group), which was bound to appear before the test. Sit with all of those people and share whatever you know and absorb whatever they know.
Secondly, trust in what you know and study, and ignore any other INABA (Impossible Needless Assumptions By Anxiety), which was also bound to come out. (Try recalling what happened before the first maths test when somebody asked what happen if they asked you to draw x-square coordinates.)
Thirdly, during the test, go with the flow, or in Chinese, ~{Kf;zS&1d~}. (I'm a pro in that.) Use all your imaginations you can take out from your head and use them effectively, no spamming! For example, get ideas from shows you have watched, books you have read, etc...

Openus,
Fan Yi

[2afanyi10]

Apr 29, 2008 8:01:32 GMT -5 2adanieltan08 said:

Actually , unseen poetry mainly depends on how you or any other person you might have never known of see in the poem.
As the supporting basis and information is very little , etc no poet background info and also no explicit reasons stated there and then on why the poet decided to do this and that, thus not much can be derived , or can even be infered from the poem , except its general meaning to the massesT
Take . for example , the poem on charity as published on the other post.
It might , as the poster described , mean poverty as a scary and also depicts it paritally connected to fear. However , different people form different points of life might have different thoughts of the poem. Me , for instance , feels that the poem might in fact have been stating a general point of view on the sensitive issue of charity.
The poet depicts the persona as one who is scared, shy and also lacking the courage to help the people in poverty, and to me this can also be a brief overview of how charity is to people.
Charity might be a meaningful and the best solution to reducing the masses of poverty, but it has one big drawback : not every one has the financial suport (the persona gave her a coin , and it already meant a lot to her ) and the courage to donate (the persona running away after giving the woman the coin ).
After all my mumbling , I have only one point to make regarding unseen poetry :
Unseen poetry is meant to be seen with different perspectives , and as long as you have the evidence to support your stands , unseen poetry can be thus understood without much difficulty.


L0L _did i overdo it ? =)_

-)B@CK~~ST@B(-
f33l th3 p@1n .
t@st3 th3 1njust1c3.
Wr1th3 1n @g0ny.

For the last time, Mr Daniel, why do you have to make some tricks used to prepare for your test complicated? This is not philosophy.

Openus,
Fan Yi

[2a21benjamin]

yes, yes, all these are vry good points to doing well in literature, especially MMORPG and The Sean Lee's guide to good mugging skills, i salute you all, very very well done ^^
*obviously the real one are good too* xD
lets all share more tips okay? once i find one... Ms Ngo, do you have anything to add?

*~BnGzL owns YOU~*

[2akennethleong14]

Well... Firstly u must analysise the poem in SPECS AND SLIMS, with this analysis done properly u can get at least B3. Dont Give line to Line analysis. AND THE MOST... PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS..

[2cnicklee25]

really, there is no sure way to see the sparks fly and A's pop up.

1. listen in class. (i might fail to do so.)

2. understand. i mean, understand.

3. know what you need to know.

4. Step 2, again.

Then you can start work.

[2cgalileoyap07]

Hi averyone,
I guess the most effective way is to read the poem, read the poem, read the poem again and think about the structure of your answer, see, spec etc. You should also familiarise yourself with the poems that are most likely to come out. Der.

Cheerios,
Galileo.