1: Poems can often be difficult, but we should pay as much attention as possible and try our best to understand them.
2: It may help if you look up the poet and understand what situation he/she was in when he/she wrote the poem.
3: Deciphering the title might help a lot in understanding the poem as a whole. This is because the title is very likely to concentrate on the poet’s intentions in a poem.
4: Do not try to fit the poem into your life. There may be poems that you can’t relate to. That’s why we must look at a poet’s view and understand it from their position.
5: Look up a word that you don’t know. Don’t just try to understand it by looking at the sentence because, in poems, it may not fit into the sentence at all.
6: Reading as many poems as you can is a beneficial method in the overall increase of your poem reading abilities.
7: When you are done understanding a poem, it can be fun to figure out all the rhymes, rhythm, and style of the poem.
8: Read the poem out loud. Unlike normal writing, poems are made to be read out loud. With all of the rhymes and rhythm, you can feel each word’s texture when you read a poem aloud.
9: Pick a poem you really like and read it in multiple stages of your life. My mother told me a poem feels completely different reading in 20, 30, and now.
10: Try and understand a poem for a long time and multiple times. Things you didn’t notice just might start popping into your mind when you do that.
