Could you tell me how to go about analyzing or theme or poem

Question

"A Kite Is a Victim" by Leonard Cohen

What are juxtapositions ?

Answer 1

These two webpages give the very best ideas I've ever seen about how to read (and reread and reread!) and analyze (explicate) a poem:

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/markport/best/study/poetry.htm

Most information overlaps from one webpage to the other; some ideas are different. Be sure to use all the ideas you find!

Juxtaposition:
"The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development. See also antithesis, bathos, foil, mirror passage, and mirror scene."
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_J.html

Answer 2

I am sorry could you give me a hint. I have read it over quite a few times. I still do not see where there are juxtapositions

Answer 3

Have you really studied the several websites these teachers posted? They give you many big hints.