I am supposed to choose a poem to do in-depth analysis on for a poetry project, but I can't seem to find one that would be simple, yet sound impressive. Can anyone help me out? Any suggestions?

Aleah-

Go to the 'Classical Poets' section on the opening page. Try Frost, Dickenson, Nash, Teasdale, Parker... Find one you like, and we'll discuss analysis.


Jack

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
-- John Gillespie Magee


Discuss the form (sonnet, but what kind?), elucidating its particular rhyme scheme; tell what an octave and sestet are; discuss end-stopped lines versus enjambments; consonance and assonance; substitions of feet (trochees and/or anapests for iambs); find out how & where the author died; talk about his love of flying and his Spitfire aircraft; elaborate on his life at Rugby and how he hoped to follow in the footsteps of Rupert Brooke. Much more that can be done, of course.

Oh, yeah, memorize the poem. Try to imagine how the author would have read it. That will be impressive!