Poetry Explication

This document provides guidance on how to write a poetry explication. It explains that an explication analyzes the meaning and relationships within a poem by describing its plot, conflicts, structure, language, and patterns. To write an explication, one must carefully read and analyze the poem's form, rhetoric, syntax, vocabulary, meter, rhythm, and sound and visual patterns. An effective explication discusses these elements over multiple paragraphs before concluding by asserting an explanation of the poem's overall sound and visual effects.