An excellent overview from UNC’s Writing Center of what an explication is and how to approach a poem with this task in mind; longer and more comprehensive than the Texas site.

The assertion will only be one sentence, and each piece of support will usually be one sentence, but each explication may range from one sentence to several sentences. In addition to the …

Explication is a type of analysis meant to unfold information in written words that is not just useful to describing and understanding written English, but also to teaching and learning it.

This genre of writing, explication, will be a line-by-line analysis of the poem. It will begin with the “big picture” of the poem and then chronologically dive deeper to reveal how the structure …

A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis that describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem.

Poetry explication or analysis is a method of literary criticism involving a detailed examination of each part of a poem or work, and an exposition of the relationship of these parts to each other …

Carnap’s notion of explication is regularly cited as one root for such endeavours (e.g. Cappelen & Plunkett 2020, 6). A lot of research has focused on Carnap’s approach. But Quine also …