Some people like to study fiction more than nonfiction.
A critical analysis of the text is a detailed, specific examination of a work of literature. By examining and thinking about opening up the way the poem or work is perceived, you can establish a central pattern, a design that orders the narrative and that will, in turn, order the organization of any essay about the work. Very often, the language creates a visual dynamic as well as verbal coherence. Critical analysis operates on the premise that literature, as artifice, will be more fully understood and appreciated to the extent that the nature and interrelations of its parts are perceived, and that that understanding will take the form of insight into the theme of the work in question. This kind of work must be done before you can begin to appropriate any theoretical or specific literary approach.