Until this assignment I would usually struggle with poetry. Most of the times I would struggle with interpretation or meaning that the author tries to portray. These sources of information about the structure of poems and it’s components I found extremely helpful and gave me a better understanding of how to approach poems. My personal favorite takeaway from the article on “how to read a poem” is to read it aloud and embrace the ambiguity. I find both of these suggestions very helpful. Reading a poem aloud does make you get a better feel of the flow and rhythm while knowing that the meaning of a poem is a subject to a personal interpretation and it keeps on renewing itself every time you reread it is very freeing. Poems certainly have a mystery aspect to them and knowing that there is no right or wrong way of interpretation is quite liberating.Discussin
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Poems definitely do have a mystery aspect to them and the fact that there is no right/wrong way of interpretation is actually amazing. The writer simply writes how they feel, and the reader can interpret it in so many different ways. That’s one of the beauties of poems. Reading a poem out loud and in a certain manner is a good way to help you get a better feel of what you are reading.