This document provides an agenda for analyzing a poem for an English class. It instructs students to closely read the poem, looking for poetic techniques and conventions. It then has them revisit questions that literary critics ask and use the answers to write a thesis about what the poem does and how its parts work together. Students are told to outline their essay, making assertions in topic sentences to support their thesis and using textual evidence from the poem. The document concludes by having students review their work to ensure their thesis is clear and their evidence and topic sentences support it.