A Heuristic for Working Through Thirst

To avoid periods without writing and to avoid becoming distant from the poems in Thirst while I'm working through reading the secondary literature as well as other poems, I am designing a tentative framework for continually working through the poems in Thirst (as well, probably, as some of the other pertinent poems or parts of poems I come across). The three parts, which actually overlap, though I may allow them to remain artificially separated so that I don't stop writing for fear of having to show the connections, are:

(1) Narrate the poem. First, I want to write a prose "literal" interpretation of the poem, quoting, of course, key words and phrases. I want to write a re-presentation of the poem that can make sense without the poem next to it.

(2) Exposition on thematic interpretation. Next, I want to write some expository notes on my interpretation of the poem. I should aim for including multiple possible interpretations

(3) Allow the poem and interpretation to modify my frame work. Finally, I want to talk about how the poem represents the "generative" tension between "God" and "Earth" and the ways that the poem may not represent that either by representing the opposite or by representing something else altogether. This is not to abandon my framework but to develop it and fill it in with complications and particulars.