There are a lot of tips suggested by some experts how to read poetry well,here are some of them.
1. Read the poem one straight trought,with no particular expectation; read open mindedly. Let your self experience whatever you find,without worrying any large general and important ideas of the poem. Don’t dwell on a trouble some word-just push on.
2. On the second reading, read for the exact sense of all words, if there are words you don’t understand, look them up in your dictionary.
3. If you read the poem silently to yourself, sounds its words in your mind. Better still, read the poem aloud, or hear someone else reads it. You may discover meanings you didn’t perceive in it before.
4. Paraphrase it. You put your own words what you understand the poem say, restating ideas that seem essential, coming out and starting what the poem may suggest. In doing this, you may work it thourg the whole poem, stanza by stanza, or line by line.
5. Compare your prophase to the poem. Revise it if you find any irrelevance in it. What you have in the last revision-the time when you find there is no more irrelevance between your paraphrase and the poem- is a dependable interpretation.
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