Robert+Frost-+Assignment+for+2nd+year+SL+group+2

=After reading the poem, //A Considerable Speck// again, I would like you to write a commentary on it keeping in mind the following points given below. The structure of your essay is for you to determine, but pay special attention to the introduction and conclusion. The minimum word limit is 400 words. = = = =**Introduction-** Set out a theme(Central Meaning) and substantiate with coherent argument= = = =**Body of your essay**: Structure your commentary around the central argument with close reference to the text.= = = =A- **Stanza wise evaluation-transition/changes or contrast in emotions**= =B- **Tone**: 1) Poet's response to characters(if any)= =2) Poet's response from audience/reader= =3) Poet's response to himself (Empathy-identification)= = = =C- **Mood**: Grim or jovial or...= =D- **Title:** Symbolic or ironical? [ If addressed to a character, dead or absent- a personification...]= = = = = =2. **Atmosphere/Setting**: Establish by - i) diction, ii) imagery= = = =3. **Explanation of lines**: respond with sensitivity to the speaker, character involved...= = = =4. Structure:= =a) **Beginning**: Abrupt or dramatic or ironical or invocation (Ode)= =**Ending**: Ambivalent or open/close ended= = = =b) **Language**: Poet uses diction to contribute to the tone and feeling of the poem- Is it emotive or dull language?= = = =**Diction**- Colloquial or euphonic( musical); cacophonic (jarring) or suggestive?= =**Rhythm**= =**Foregrounding:** Use of linguistic devices- For example, deviation( departure from grammar); repetition;= =Parallelism (repeating of sentences with variation in lexical items)= =**Lineation**: Division of poetry into lines that effects he thoughts and feelings:= =a) Caesura : division of a line into two parts- Example- (Of arms and the man, I sing. || Who first from the= =shores of Troy...)= =b) End-stopped line: (marked by. / ,) Example- Of [|Eden], or the Virgin Birth—Have done!= =c) Enjambment/run-on line: to let the sense of the words go on without a pause and override the visual= =sense of the lineation.= =Example- I am not prone to weeping, as our sex= =Commonly are;= = = =c) **Imagery**: Stimulate the sense of - Kinesthasia (movement); Visual (sight), Tactile (touch), Auditory(hearing);= =Gustatory (taste), Olfactory (smell) and Synesthesia ( one sense evokes another)= = = =d) **Figures of Speech**- Identify the key devices: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification,= =hyperbole, pun, climax, bathos, oxymoron to name a few...= = = =e) **Symbolism**= = = =f) **Rhythm**- regular/irregular sound pattern= = = =g) **Rhyme scheme**= = = =h) **Genre**: Free verse, blank verse( Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter usually), couplet, sonnet, ode, elegy, allegory,= =narrative poem, ballad, dramatic monologue, epic= = = =Finally, the **CONCLUSION**- conclude the central argument with a deeper understanding of the central theme,= =coupled with your personal opinion. One or two lines will do for personal response.=
 * 1) =**__Identify thoughts & Feelings__:**=