How To Read a Poem

       This was the best advice I have gotten out of our papers so far.The advice about what questions to    ask when reading can be used not only with poetry but with any kind of writing you are reading. Whenever your reading something out loud I think it is easier to here how the writing is supposed to sound. With poetry there can be many breaks and it can be confusing when just skimming through it. Reading it out loud allows a person to take pauses and let themselves comprehend what is being said. Also alot of poems can be confusing and offten feel like they have no real meaning. When this happends it really is good to talk to other people, like we did in class, and get everyones oppinion then put together what you think the overall point of the poem was. A poem can have several different meanings and can be taking in many different ways. When you have these kinds of poems its ok to just take the poem in your own way and not feel like your missing the big point.I also got that you should not only look at what the poem is saying but how the poem is constructed or how it is wrote because it may have a part in the meaning of the peom.