Day 5 post 2

from the blog of Bennett Parker Graff:

"So why do we teach students how to write literary criticism? Make no mistake, it is a form of writing that can approach art in the right hands. But even for beginners it is a far more difficult mode of nonfiction writing--in my humble view--than the standard nonfiction forms of narration, description, and argumentation. Technically, literary criticism is a subdivision of the last, but it remains one of the hardest to do well. I attribute this difficulty not only to the inability of [some] students to read well but also to the inherent complications of trying to formulate an argument about something as slippery as a finely crafted story or poem."

So I would like you all to try. Please select one of the following poems and devise an detailed outline for a literary analysis on it. Include at the top your thesis.
Poems to choose from--
"Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning
"Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand