Analyzing/Understanding an unseen poem in three steps:

All poems will show the poets feelings (sometimes hidden)

 What are these feelings?
Highlight words which seem to show emotions
Write down the feelings you may attach to these words
 Why does the poet/the character feel that way?
Highlight anything which may explain why the poet feels that way (if possible use another color)
 How do you know?
Link the feelings to the language

Futility (Wilfred Owen)

Move him into the sun -

Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown1.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse2 him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds -

Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
- O what made fatuous3 sunbeams toil4
To break earth's sleep at all?

1
unsown: uncultivated
2
rouse: awaken
3
fatuous: silly
4
toil: work hard