However, no matter which genre you come across, all these categories have some common features: in poetry, words are usually placed together to form sounds, imagery, and ideas that would be too complicated or abstract to bring out directly.
Therefore, the language of a poet is most often ambiguous and is full of poetic techniques. Centuries back, especially during the Elizabethan and Augustan periods, poetry was written following strict rules of meter and rhyme and in a language that was above the comprehension of the common man. Although these classical forms of poetry are still in practice today, modern poets have adapted their poetry into more simple structures and use less complex language styles, making poetry more accessible to the common man.
In brief, poets try to make their work unique and beautiful through rhythmic quality and through the employment of words. Fiction, in contrast to poetry, runs without line breaks or rhythm. Fiction is literature in the form of prose, which describes imaginary events and people whereas poetry is literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language. The three main genres of fiction are short fiction, novella, and novel whereas there are many genres of poetry. The main difference between fiction and poetry is that poetry uses rhythmic qualities of language while fiction does not.
It endures not only because of the comic brilliance of its characters and their dialogue, but also because its satire still resonates with contemporary audiences. We might like to think we are more liberated and socially sophisticated than our Victorian ancestors, but the starlets and eligible bachelors who star in current reality television programs illustrate the extent to which superficial concerns still influence decisions about love and even marriage.
Even now, we can turn to Oscar Wilde to help us understand and laugh at those who are earnest in name only. And note how her last sentence cleverly establishes that sense of closure that is also a feature of an effective analysis.
You may, of course, modify the template that is presented here. Your instructor might favour a somewhat different approach to literary analysis. Its essence, though, will be your understanding and interpretation of the theme of the poem, story, or play and the skill with which the author shapes the elements of literature—plot, character, form, diction, setting, point of view—to support the theme.
So how old would he be? Start with a hypothesis and stick with it unless further details make your guess seem untenable. Then try a different hypothesis. What is his rank?
Is he an officer? Unlikely, probably an unlisted man, since his tone toward the majors is angry and sarcastic. Are other meanings intended? What is the purpose of the poem? Old men make and run wars; young men fight and die in them. The speaker in the poem is an ordinary soldier talking about the majors at the army base.
By pretending what he would be like if he were an officer, he condemns war. Blood is an example of a symbol used in play, story, or the poem it can symbolize menstruation or death. Foreshadowing is often used in short stories, poetry and drama. Foreshadowing is used early in a story of situations to hint of things to come. Foreshadowing can be used in poetry in the title to give the reader an idea of what the poem is about.
Another element shared by short stories, poetry and drama is mood. The mood is used in short stories, poetry and drama to add atmosphere and to help convey the theme. Mood give a short stories, poetry and drama a feeling, for an example the mood can be eerie or sad.
Figures of speech are another element that is shared by drama, short stories, and poems. Figures of speech are expressions such as a hyperbole or metaphor that uses words to achieve effects beyond ordinary language. Imagery is another element in drama, short stories, and poems. The writer uses imagery is poems and short stories to describe what is seen, heard, smelled. Writer's uses imagery to give readers an impression of charter or situation to help reinforce a theme.
Imagery can also be used in plays to describe what cannot be seen or smelled, to help reinforce a theme or idea. Another element that is common in drama, short stories, and poems is conflict. Conflict is the struggle between opposing forces emerges as the action develops. Conflict can also be internal within oneself poems are often written about being in conflict with one's self.
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