Poem Explication

In a well thought and presented essay of about 1400-1500 wordsnot including quotations, in-text citations, or Works Cited(about 5-6 pages) explicate a poem from the list. Explication is a type of analysis that focuses on the work of literature chronologically. When analyzing a poem, you should probably go with the formalist critical approach. Identify the theme of the poem and in your explication support this theme by breaking the poem down sentence by sentencestanza by stanza, line by line, word by wordexploring the meaning and how it works within your theme. Explication for poetry requires a close focus on the language of the poem, so use The Oxford English Dictionary found in the library database; in fact, you are required to use at least 6 definitions of words in your selected poem to support your explication of the poemfollowing MLA guidelines for documentation. If the definition you provide is the obvious definition (one that most people already know), it doesnt really add much insight into the poem.