Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0439 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Attributing the Poem's Judgment to the Speaker
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The idea
A poem may judge its speaker harshly while the speaker judges himself well. Options describing the poem's verdict, self-deluded or self-condemning, differ from options describing the speaker's own state, confident or aggrieved. Read which of the two the question asks for.
In practice
The poem's verdict is not his mood.
Where people slip
Check whose state is being asked about.
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