“Reading a poem is part attitude and part technique. .The quote from the reading “How to Read Poem” by Edward Hirsch. In my own words, I would instead use, reading a poem is part imagination and critical thinking. I say this because in poems you need to expand your min far then what the poem is saying. Most times in poetry, there is many many literary devices used such as, figurative language, metaphors and more. They use them to help make their points more memorable.
In this week’s sonnet “What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why”, it was one of the poems that caught my eye. I thought of it as a sad poem. I thought this since how the author is talking about where her lips been on her past lovers that are longer connected with each other. “And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain for unremembered lads that not again will turn to me at midnight with a cry”. She is reminiscing on her past.
