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Reading and Understanding Poetry

How to understand poetry?
6 tips for interpreting poetry for...
 1 Read the poem at least twice. ...
 2 Identifythe figures of speech. ...
 3 Don't let your opinion interfere with the interpretation. ...
 4 Get to know the authors' lives briefly. ...
 5 Keep in the habit of reading and interpreting poetry.
 6 Don't have any prejudices
social, political and so on ... !
Least but not last, try to read every kind
poetry as much as possible and remember poetry is not prose, nor technical text... poetry is a dream, a spiritual flight... good luck my dear reader...!

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Line Gauthier May 27, 2022 at 3:37 PM Great advice, well presented. I think on line 9 you meant "and so on". Well done ~ Alkas Poetry May 27, 2022 at 4:32 PM Thank you dear Line poe elegantly alert me of the graphic error son on... so on, thanks for the lovely comment... since my beginning here on this site I have received a lot of affection from you, commenting with quality and tenderness... thanks, God Bless you, alkas