Part C
After you have read the poem thoroughly (the world is too much with us by William Wordsworth), present your analysis of the poem in an essay.
Think of a major claim that you can make about the poem and build an argument to support
that claim using evidence from the text. (An essay that contains such an argument is called
an explication of a poem.) Your claim may be a specific interpretation of the poem, a view
about the poet's attitude toward the subject, the relationship of the subject to the historical
context of the poem, the significance of some element of the poem's form, or another similar
type of analysis.
Your essay should include the following:
• your interpretation of the poem
• textual evidence to support your interpretation
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an analysis of specific elements of the poem
a discussion of how specific elements of the poem (such as theme, figurative language,
or structure) affect the meaning of the entire poem
a major claim about the poem
an argument to support your claim