Writing An Interpretive Essay
Interpret: when you interpret something you're trying to unravel its meaning. To find a meaning.
Interpretive essay:
You start it with a theme. Pick out important words.
"Strange fits of passions have I known.." By William Wordsworth. Imp words: urgency, journey, death, worry, remembrance, telling, dreaming, moon, Lucy, lovers, summer, focus. .descriptive words; rose, cottage, night, orchard, horse, nature.
Main focus: The Moon. . There's an oddness to the end.
Poem is a ballad: about love/romance. Usually tells a story.
An interpretation can't be right or wrong. It's not a solution, more like an opinion.
How are the ideas connected?
Moon:: its goes through phases. ...
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Fruit grows in spring. Trees die again then come back in the spring.
Passion: strange emotional fit.
~~~Write an essay to interpret this poem so the reader can better understand it~~~
Thesis: in William wordsworths poem, strange fits of passion,
FRAGMENT: not a complete thought, something missing.
POEM: Death, immortality, and her characters.
First stop in her journey is childhood. Field/harvest represents her early adulthood. Setting sun represents the old age. Women mostly wear gowns like she did (to die) back in the day(represent death) . (Burial, afterlife)So its ironic that she is wearing a dress. They travel to a "house" could easily say it was a dress.
* Image of death as a kind character who takes you on a journey through her life.
* Shes embracing death.
* Scenes of life: school,field/harverst, setting sun, house.
* By Monday put it into interpretation. Thesis. "the poem because I could not stop for death is about the different stages of ...
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