How to analyze Poems and write an introductory paragraph for English Literature?

When writing an introductory paragraph for English Literature, please consider:
What are the poet's perspectives / espousal of ideas? What tone of voice was strategically employed to convey the purposes?
What are the social, political and historical context?
Any particularly prominent use of stylistic devices?
Holy Sonnet X: Death, be not proudAs a revisionist, the poet critically examined the prevailing sentiments pertinent to death; of death being perceived to be inexorable, dreadful (deeply disconcerting) and interminable; a deterministically bleak vision intrinsically entwined with notions of fatalistic resignation and capitulation / acquiescence. The eponymous poem Death Sonnet, presented a metaphysical interlocution with death...