John Donne: Poems

could you tell me how to criticize the literary work according to the new criticism and theory?

I need to criticize this poem :

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

by William Wordsworth

A slumber did my spirit seal;

I had no human fears:

She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;

She neither hears nor sees;

Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course

With rocks, and stones, and trees.

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Hi, I can help you analyze this but I'm not sure what you mean by "The New Criticism Theory".

I mean "formalism"

Formalism of what!