Explications

Here are two more exemplars for explications of poems.

https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Nantucket.pdf

https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Axe-Handles.pdf

Try to use your skills in close reading, reading for tone, be comfortable discussing speaker vs. audience relationships.  While we talk a lot about purpose in AP Lang, the focus in Literature will change from purpose to theme.  How does the "speaker"(who is not the poet, but a persona created by the poet), the language, the form, etc all create a theme?  Much like tone is a result of diction, figurative language, syntax, details, and diction;  theme is created by the poet's choices. With literature you can also add things like symbolism and motifs.