It’s pretty easy to see how at least some stories, for example, convey clear meanings or morals. How do such texts mean something? If an author wanted to convey a meaning, wouldn’t she be much better off writing an essay just telling us what she meant? First, literary analyses (or papers that offer an interpretation of literary texts) rely on the assumption that stories, poems, and plays must mean something. Writing an analysis of a piece of literature can be a mystifying process. For additional information on writing about drama and poetry specifically, please see the Writing Center’s handouts on writing about drama and on writing poetry explications.
This handout describes some steps for planning and writing papers about literary texts.
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