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...!