Task
Your task is to read 3 poems and make an analysis of the poem by answering the questions below:
What does the title tell you about the poem's subject, tone, and genre?
What is the poem's basic situation?
What is the author's attitude toward his or her subject?
What is the author trying to say?
Who is the speaker addressing?
Does the poem follow a narrative?
How is the poem physically organized--it is one long poem, or does it have stanzas or separate lines?
Determine the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Is the poem built on a comparison or analogy? If so, how is the comparison appropriate? How are the two things alike? How different?
What is the theme or goal of the poem?