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Poetry Analysis
Directions: Use your poetry notes to help you as you read and annotate the following poems.
Then answer the analysis questions that follow.
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“Simile” by N. Scott Momaday
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Analysis Questions
1. Whom is the speaker addressing? Before the poem begins, what has happened?
2. An extended simile continues a comparison for several lines or even through an entire
poem. What is this poem’s extended simile?
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“Heart! We will forget him!” by Emily Dickinson
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Analysis Questions
1. How is personification being used in the poem? What is being personified and for what
purpose? Explain.