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Poetry Analysis

The document analyzes two poems: 'Getting Lost In Nazi Germany' by Marvin Bell and 'When I Say I Love You' by Juan Miguel Severo, focusing on their themes of loss and love, respectively. It discusses the structure, meaning, and figurative language used in each poem, highlighting the emotional depth and personal connections the poems evoke. The analysis emphasizes the importance of persistence in overcoming feelings of isolation and the complex nature of love.

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Poetry Analysis

The document analyzes two poems: 'Getting Lost In Nazi Germany' by Marvin Bell and 'When I Say I Love You' by Juan Miguel Severo, focusing on their themes of loss and love, respectively. It discusses the structure, meaning, and figurative language used in each poem, highlighting the emotional depth and personal connections the poems evoke. The analysis emphasizes the importance of persistence in overcoming feelings of isolation and the complex nature of love.

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Krezel Mae I.

Pavo BSED ENG 2A

ELE 22 Contemporary and Popular Literature

Poetry Analysis

Group Theme: Lost

Introduction
Name of poem: Getting Lost In Nazi Germany
Name of Poet: Marvin Bell
Date of 1971
Publication:
Other related During the past forty years Marvin Bell has been
background one of poetry’s true innovators. With each book his
info: writing seems in constant motion, always
developing ideas and exploring new literary
territory. His voice changes not to fit current literary
fashion, but to serve his art, to serve the wide—and
often entertaining—range of subjects and ideas at
the heart of his poems.

Form
Form of poem: Getting Lost In Nazi Germany is a free verse poem.
Structure of The poem is a free verse poem consists of three
poem: stanzas with six lines every stanza.
Rhyme scheme: The poem does not follow or do not have rhyme
scheme since it is a free verse poem.

Meaning
Overall Meaning: The overall meaning of the poem is about being
lost, isolation, alienation, being trapped, and
persecuted.
How the poem The poem explores feelings of being lost, afraid,
related to life in and trying to find place in a world that seems to be
general, and/or unfair, confusing, and threatening.
my life:
It teach me to be persistent no matter what happen.
It made me realized that if you feel lost just be
persistent, someday you will find your way to your
right track.

Figurative Language and Poetic Techniques


Device/Techniques Quote(s) Meaning/Significance
“Your friends are a Friends are compared to
point of a star now a distant stars,
golden, unattainable symbolizing their loss
‘elsewhere’…” and the speaker’s
isolation.
Simile “In a dream like this The dream is compared
one, a weathered face to a specific scenario
will drive you off under highlighting its surreal
a load of hay” and yet scary.
Imagery “Would you eat the This creates an image of
fruit of the corpses?” desperation and moral
compromise.

Group Theme: Love

Introduction
Name of poem: When I Say I Love You
Name of Poet: Juan Miguel Severo
Date of No specific date of Publication
Publication:
Other Juan Miguel Severo is a Filipino spoken word poet,
background writer, actor, and LGBTQ+ advocate. He is know for
info: his powerful and emotional spoken word poetry,
often tackling themes of love–like hi poem “When I
Say I Love You,” identity, and social issues. He also
writes in television films.

Form
Form of the When I Say I Love You is a spoken word or a free
poem: verse poem.
Structure of The poem is divided into seven stanzas of varying
poem: lengths.
Rhyme Scheme: The poem does not follow a regular rhyme scheme
since the poem is a free verse poem.

Meaning
Overall Meaning: When I Say I Love You explores the different
meaning and emotions behind the phrase “I Love
You.”
How the poem The poem suggests that love isn’t just a single
related to life in emotion, but a complex mix of feelings, actions, and
general, and/or commitment. It suggest that “I Love You” can mean
you life: different things at different places.

The poem related to my life because it is a reminder


that saying “I love you “ is not just a phrase to
complete a relationship and not just because we are
obliged to say it, it is about saying I love you
because you want to give love, assurance, a life,
and I/we are saying I love you because we are
grateful that they came into our lives. I love you, it
means I want to spend and be with you through ups
and downs, joys and challenges.

Figurative Languages and Poetic Techniques


Devices/ Quote(s) Meanings/Significance
Techniques
Anaphora Line 1,2,3, and last line The repetition of “When I
say I Love You “ in
beginning and end
creates a rhythmic and
emphatic effects of the
poem.
Imagery “My nerves get shaky This creates a physical
often times, and my image of nervousness
knees tremble. My arms and exhaustion.
become weary”
Imagery “let me melt under the This means enduring
heat of the sun” hardships for love.
Personification “My love is prepared to This personified as love
accept that this, this is is prepared and being
the kind of adversity that able to embrace love
goes with love; embrace when you decided to
it.” give love.
Hyperbole “Let me confront all the This an exaggeration of
coming storms” being willing to face any
challenges in the name
of love.

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