An explication is a detailed review given, in this case, to a piece of literature.  Explications are prepared in order to provide a more detailed understanding of what the author is revealing.  This particular explication is about three poems that are available from the previous page: "The Subverted Flower", "To His Coy Mistress", and "A Fine, a Private Place".  I wrote this my final year in college.

In order to provide some sort of feel for what the poems and my paper is about, allow me to provide a short clip from my work:

"In “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell, the speaker exaggerates exceedingly to express his desire to have sex with the woman for whom the poem is written. He begins to woo her in a humorous sort of way, and then becomes more serious later in the poem. The whole poem is basically an argument trying to persuade them both to yield to their sexual desires. Meanwhile, in “The Subverted Flower,” by Robert Frost, a man presents a flower to a woman through a show of gentlemanly courtship. Robert Frost displays the problem of sexual desire in courtship between men and women in twentieth century American society. Lastly, in “A Fine, a Private Place,” by Diane Ackerman, a woman recalls an extraordinary sexual experience between her and an unnamed man. Ackerman mirrors the woman’s experience onto a sea scene, dramatizing the enactment of her sexual desires."

Without further ado, here is my Poetry Explication.