Stop all clock
Note that "Stop all the clocks" seems to be a private elegy for a lost love, while "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" commemorates a public figure. How does this difference affect the register the degree of formality--of each poem? What kind of audience does each poem imagine? What particular pressures might accompany composing an elegy for a public figure vs. a loved one? Remember to consider carefully not just what your poem says but bow it says it; how do specific word choices, sounds, formal structure, and other features of the poem's style contribute to its fulfillment or deferral of our expectations that the elegy will lament, praise, and console? Keep your primary text in focus as the target of your analysis; you should draw in your secondary poem only to clarify what makes your primary poem's engagement with the conventions of the elegy unique and compelling .In literary analysis, evidence comes in two forms: details from the text and direct quotations from it. In order for your claim to be persuasive, you must supply plenty of evidence and demonstrate how it supports your argument. This does not mean that you must quote at length, especially in such a short essay. Instead, in your analysis you should refer constantly to snippets of language and relevant details, unpacking their significance as you go