My ability to read poetry after the past two weeks has improved a bit. I have become more familiar with certain terms such as imagery, some of the poems we read have opened up my imagination and I could vividly feel or even envision what the speaker is writing about in their poems. Although I still struggle with understanding some of the text when it’s written a certain way it feels a bit tricky to comprehend the meaning behind certain stanzas. I also still struggle reading slowly and reading a poem the way it should be read, sometimes I read it like a run on sentence instead of pausing the way I should and that plays into me getting confused. I do enjoy reading certain poems because of the feelings they’re capable to invoke like sadness or joy but some of them use certain words that leaved me feeling puzzled.
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I agree that reading poems are tricky and the only advice I can give you to get better is to keep reading poems. Poems for me are one of the worst to read. One thing that really helped me understand poems is to break the poem down and ask yourself a question like what could this mean?, how does it affect the author? Also to slow down when reading a poem. Poems require time in order for you to get the bigger picture. I guess you could be a detective but for poems.
Hello Britney, I also struggle with reading slowly so I like the fact you mentioned that. I think this might be a struggle of ours because when you read other texts other than poetry you can read at a normal speed and when you read poetry, you read at a slower speed. Do you agree with this thought?