Comment form for ib poetry analysis
This page contains a link to the questionnaire used for comments to the poems used in our IB course. Read the note below to gain an understanding of our goal:
IB Poetry Analysis Guide –
This guide uses the thinking of Marshall Rosenberg’s theory of ‘nonviolent communication’ to begin to understand needs and feelings, both major motivators in our lives, to see more deeply the reasons for a piece of literature’s existence. In other words, the poem was written for a reason to satisfy a need or value arising from a feeling. Can we find that original need/feeling? Then what feeling of ours arises from the poem and what need do we find it meeting?
Our goal is to discover deeper meaning in the literature and possibly ourselves experiencing the literature presenting itself now with our different life experiences in the classroom helping to interpret poetic meaning. The poem, then, serves as an invitation to create our own poem – one that may never be in written-form and, yet, in existence still. That existence is called into being by our language through class discussion.
Google ‘nonviolent communication needs list’ and a list of needs will guide us in our exploration, the list also has an attached list for feelings we will use to uncover both the author’s and our felt-reactions to the poetry. There is a link here:
Nonviolent Communication Needs List
To give some more clarity here: human needs are NOUNS and human feelings are VERBS. We feel -- is an action word, and we have needs -- those are objective. Humans have both motivating us, those actions include expressing ourselves in nonviolent ways, and sadly, in violent ways. This exercise is to 'merely' learn how to identify them and that is easier said than done!
On a practical level, this exploration serves as essay-writing material for the IB exam and on a meaning-level it serves to give grounded insight into our shared human experience as a universal invitation connecting us all inviting us to learn how to communicate in nonviolent ways.
So, now, after reading the poem, using the nonviolent communication needs list, answer using the link below:
1. What need was the author trying to express in this poem? -- or said differently --
What need was the author trying to meet writing this poem? What need is driving this poem? (justice, connection, love, expression, etc. – use the needs list)
2. What is the feeling, you think, that the author had when writing this poem, the feeling diving the poem’s creation?
3. Is there any background information you may know, there may be none, that helps clarify motives, values, needs for the poem?—historical events at that time for the author, personal events, cultural biases?
Now for YOU, the reader:
1. What feeling arises for you reading this poem? This is a deep question and a personal one, it is a question of where YOU are at NOW reading the poem, not what you think the ‘right’ answer may be.
2. What do you value (also called needs or yearnings) that gives rise to the feelings when reading this poem?—again there is no right answer here, it’s a question of where you are at now reading this literature.
3. Lastly, did you like the poem? Again, no right or wrong answer here, it’s a starting point for discussion. Think of this as a 'Pandora' question, as in the music software that analyzes likes/dislikes, we will use this as a discussion point comparing poems for what in them seems to compel the answers.
Below you will find the survey, enter your answers, not give your name. We do need your response. Remember the site automatically collects your login so respectful responses are required. The login will be used only if an issue arises. All responses will be publically posted in class for discussion.
This discussion is an interpretation of literature appealing because of its deep personal meanings. So there are no right or wrong answers here. Each of us is a different person with a unique background giving rise to different experiences of life. And with that is a shared experience of common needs and feelings we seek to uncover in the discussion.
Here is the link to the anonymous comment form:
Poem Comments
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IB Poetry Analysis Guide –
This guide uses the thinking of Marshall Rosenberg’s theory of ‘nonviolent communication’ to begin to understand needs and feelings, both major motivators in our lives, to see more deeply the reasons for a piece of literature’s existence. In other words, the poem was written for a reason to satisfy a need or value arising from a feeling. Can we find that original need/feeling? Then what feeling of ours arises from the poem and what need do we find it meeting?
Our goal is to discover deeper meaning in the literature and possibly ourselves experiencing the literature presenting itself now with our different life experiences in the classroom helping to interpret poetic meaning. The poem, then, serves as an invitation to create our own poem – one that may never be in written-form and, yet, in existence still. That existence is called into being by our language through class discussion.
Google ‘nonviolent communication needs list’ and a list of needs will guide us in our exploration, the list also has an attached list for feelings we will use to uncover both the author’s and our felt-reactions to the poetry. There is a link here:
Nonviolent Communication Needs List
To give some more clarity here: human needs are NOUNS and human feelings are VERBS. We feel -- is an action word, and we have needs -- those are objective. Humans have both motivating us, those actions include expressing ourselves in nonviolent ways, and sadly, in violent ways. This exercise is to 'merely' learn how to identify them and that is easier said than done!
On a practical level, this exploration serves as essay-writing material for the IB exam and on a meaning-level it serves to give grounded insight into our shared human experience as a universal invitation connecting us all inviting us to learn how to communicate in nonviolent ways.
So, now, after reading the poem, using the nonviolent communication needs list, answer using the link below:
1. What need was the author trying to express in this poem? -- or said differently --
What need was the author trying to meet writing this poem? What need is driving this poem? (justice, connection, love, expression, etc. – use the needs list)
2. What is the feeling, you think, that the author had when writing this poem, the feeling diving the poem’s creation?
3. Is there any background information you may know, there may be none, that helps clarify motives, values, needs for the poem?—historical events at that time for the author, personal events, cultural biases?
Now for YOU, the reader:
1. What feeling arises for you reading this poem? This is a deep question and a personal one, it is a question of where YOU are at NOW reading the poem, not what you think the ‘right’ answer may be.
2. What do you value (also called needs or yearnings) that gives rise to the feelings when reading this poem?—again there is no right answer here, it’s a question of where you are at now reading this literature.
3. Lastly, did you like the poem? Again, no right or wrong answer here, it’s a starting point for discussion. Think of this as a 'Pandora' question, as in the music software that analyzes likes/dislikes, we will use this as a discussion point comparing poems for what in them seems to compel the answers.
Below you will find the survey, enter your answers, not give your name. We do need your response. Remember the site automatically collects your login so respectful responses are required. The login will be used only if an issue arises. All responses will be publically posted in class for discussion.
This discussion is an interpretation of literature appealing because of its deep personal meanings. So there are no right or wrong answers here. Each of us is a different person with a unique background giving rise to different experiences of life. And with that is a shared experience of common needs and feelings we seek to uncover in the discussion.
Here is the link to the anonymous comment form:
Poem Comments
The above picture was used with permission from:
http://www.bigfoto.com/