1. A poem has no hidden meaning, only “meanings.” 
2. Learn how to talk back to a Poem.
3. Separate the poet from the speaker of the poem.
4. Be young and intelligent, or at least thing like that.
5. Know reading a good poem doesn’t give you something to talk about. Instead, it silences you and makes you think.
6. Embrace Ambiguity.
7. Reading the Poem Aloud and listen to yourself.
8. Poetry depends on pattern and variation.
9. Learn how to make prior Assumptions to reading the poem.
10. When you come across something that appears “ironic,” know that it is not simply the speaker’s sarcasm or your own disbelief. It could be many other things that don’t come straight to mind.

Works Cited

Academy of American Poets. “How to Read a Poem | Academy of American Poets.” Poets.org, 2014, poets.org/text/how-read-poem-0.

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Yakich, Mark. “Reading a Poem: 20 Strategies.” The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2014, www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/how-to-read-poetry-a-step-by-step-guide/380657/.