Poems for study: ‘Self-Portrait as the Last Wounded Stag’, ‘Coup de grâce’, ‘The Afterlife’, ‘Skein Song’, ‘Edifice’, ‘For the Man on the Bus Who Told Me to Go Back to Where I Came From’, ‘One Time, My Father, Crying, Drove into the Dusk’, ‘Ode to My Uvula’, ‘Self-Portrait as the Winter Sea’, ‘… or Memory as Water Language’, ‘Queer Physics: First Principle’, ‘At the Altar of Touch’, ‘Requiem with a Singing Kimono’, ‘Can Dyslexics Read? Can You Prove it’, ‘COVID’, ‘Requiem Ending with the Night Sky’
This video explains a clear six-step method for analysing a poem—covering subject, theme, tone, imagery, form, and emotional impact—to help read more closely and interpret poetry with confidence.
Poetry Essay (2014) How to analyse a poem. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTuJApvpJA (Accessed: Bovember 15, 2025).
