When one writes a formal analysis one takes a look under the hood in the words of professor rosalind krauss another way of putting it is to say that analysis tries to answer the somewhat odd-sounding question. How does the work mean thus the following paragraph because it is concerned with how form makes meaning is chiefly analytic rather than descriptive the author has made the point that a protestant church emphasizes neither the altar nor the pulpit as befits the universal priesthood of all believers he say a protestant church is essentially an auditorium he then goes on to analyze the ways in which a Gothic cathedral says or means something very different