Humanities Homework Help
SSC Annotating Poems Good Bones by Maggie Smith Analysis
Poems are attached
How to annotate:
- See an unfamiliar or uncertain word/phrase? Look it up and write def. next to word to aid understanding.
- See a word/phrase that could have a symbolic meaning or an unusual connotation? Think. Why might the poet have chosen this exact word? Write your best guess next to the word.
- Is the phrasing the poet is using kind of confusing? Write a simplified version of what they are saying to aid understanding.
- Can you sum the poem up in a sentence or two? Write it down.
- Don’t understand something? Write it down.