What would you say in an analysis for this poem? (its for my homewok)?

Question:I sometimes think that I could be alone:
Really alone, with neither God nor friends.
The people near me then might well be stone:
Just faces on a frieze that never ends.
And I would travel in my mind towards death,
A world within a world sealed like a tomb.
My thoughts would be as silent as my breath,
And, like my breath, expire at my doom.
Such thoughts would make me shudder, were not you
A world where I may enter and find rest.
A rock gives way within, and I walk through
To be in laughing eyes a welcome guest.
Thank God I have you, friend, that I might stay
And be as I could be no other way.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I sometimes think that I could be alone:
Really alone, with neither God nor friends.
The people near me then might well be stone:
Just faces on a frieze that never ends.
And I would travel in my mind towards death,
A world within a world sealed like a tomb.
My thoughts would be as silent as my breath,
And, like my breath, expire at my doom.
Such thoughts would make me shudder, were not you
A world where I may enter and find rest.
A rock gives way within, and I walk through
To be in laughing eyes a welcome guest.
Thank God I have you, friend, that I might stay
And be as I could be no other way.

Wow..... To think someone would be so alone that everyone around them may as well be stone and to think of death is sad but happens. No one knows your thoughts because they are as silent as your breath and expire when you would..... that's deep.... Yeah I would shudder at the thought.... would that be the devil's laughing eyes welcoming you as you commit sin "suicide" when you thought that was the way to find rest? Yet I'm glad you believe in God enough to have an "angel" friend that would allow you to stay and be as you could and no other way.

I really don't know anything about poetry but when I read this..... well I just wrote what came to mind.....

Such thoughts would make me shudder, were not you

Such thoughts would make me shudder, would they you?

To be in laughing eyes a welcome guest

To my laughing eyes, a welcome guest.

If you are in grade or highschool, it is pretty good...
If you are in College, you need to make more sense.
English professors are tough!

ooh, good poem, who is it by???
you may want to compare it to "i am root" that's a very similar poem.
i think it brings up ideas of facade, people being like stones, just faces etc. the idea of a world sealed off is like the facade one puts on to hide their true self. like a tomb because people begin to forget who they are and they lose what they were.
another thing to think about is "such thoughts WOULD make me shudder" but it seems like it no longer affects her.
a rock, previously facade, now gives way to laughing eyes. before she mentioned no god, now she is grateful.
and the final line, "be as i could be no other way" ties up the idea of breaking the facade, she lost herself in a sea of faces but now she know who she is, knows who her friends are etc, just an idea!!

I sometimes thought that I could be alone
but then I found I needed help .. this poem.
a sonnet, she said, is a world where I may rest
but not until I did the work and wrote the test.