Poetry has a lot to teach us. Through an analysis of a poem, we can become familiar with its forms, content and history.
There is a dichotomy of opinion about the usefulness of poetry analysis for students. One school of thought, as represented by the reading, says it helps students gain a deeper understanding of the poems. The opposing camp, of which the professor is a member, emphasizes the pitfalls of alienating young people from poems.
First, the professor opposes the reading’s view as regards the meaning of poems. He thinks that it is impossible to know precisely the meaning intended by the poet and therefore useless to try to achieve an understanding through detailed analysis. Instead, he argues that poetry is the most subjective form of literature and that each person can have a personal interpretation of the work because of his or her unique life experiences.
Second, the professor disagrees with the reading on how best to learn the special language usage and forms of poetry. He discounts the importance of the learning of poetry-writing rules and places a high value on fully experiencing the emotional force of poems. By avoiding analyzing a poem ad nauseam, he argues, a student will be able to appreciate its sound and imagery directly.
Finally, while concurring with the importance of critical thinking, the professor takes an issue with how poetry analysis skills are taught in the classroom. He thinks that by presenting the orthodox views of established literary critics, the teachers have robbed the students of the opportunity to critique poetry from a fresh start. He does not believe the students can learn to think critically this way.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, so, therefore, while, as regards
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1312.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 254.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16535433071 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93426229567 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606299212598 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.2866672791 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.333333333 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163441727369 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536378509407 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451579466549 0.0662205650399 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0912524291398 0.162205337803 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0302339428 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.