Do a close analysis (explication) of relevant aspects of the poem you choose, if you like, connecting the meaning of the poem to one or more larger social or cultural issues. Your task is to show how the meaning of the poem is developed by the various aspects of literary analysis (plot/conflict, setting/situation, character/speaker, and language) and of poetic form (stanza, structure, rhythm, rhyme, tone, and/or irony) as they manifest themselves in your chosen poem.
an analysis of e.e. cummings’ poem “next to god of course america i,” might focus on how the lack of conventional punctuation and sentence structure, the loose rhythm, and internal rhyme create the voice of the speaker as a passionate war veteran bitterly chastising society about the folly and violence of war and the hypocrisy of conventional patriotism.
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