Reading people with the impression that poetry is difficult to understand often hesitate about reading poetry. The lectures transcript below explains how to Better understand and appreciate poems. Before you read the lecture transcript, think about the following questions, why do people read poems? What aspects of a poem do you pay attention to when . you read IT how to read a poem poetry is a combination of sound and sense. More than any other type of literature, IT usually implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page. So how to reveal this hidden dimension? First, follow your ears. Well, you may ask, what does that mean as you begin reading a poem? IT is Better to ask, how does that sound? Even if its true meaning appears to be beyond your grasp? You can always say something about how the poem sounds when you read IT aloud. Do you detect rythm? Are there any repeated words, ryans or other special effects? All of these are good qualities to notice, and they may lead you to a Better understanding of the poem. In the end, read these lines to feel how they sound sweet and low, sweet and low. Wind of the western sea, low, low. Breathe and blow wind of the western sea over the rolling waters. Go come from the dying moon and blow, blow him again to me. Well, my little one, while my pretty one sleeps from sweet and low by alred tenison second approached the poem m as if you were an explorer, an unfamiliar landscape, ask some basic questions about the poem, who is talking? Who is being topped to? What is being described? Is there a sense of place? Are there other people or objects there as you explore the poem, you will begin to see images in your mind. What are those images and what happens when they are put together? This combination is often complex or even contradictory. As you slowly expLoring your surroundings, you will start to dig up clues that give you a greater understanding of the poem, read these lines, pay attention to the image of the caged bird, and try to find out what that means. The caged bird thing with a fearful trial of things unknown, but longed for still. And his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird things of freedom from caged bird by my Angelo. Third, if you are still struggling to interpret the meaning of a poem, even with much pain sticking effort, just have some patients. You cannot really understand a poem that you have. Only red ones. Sometimes reading a poem can be a lifetime job, so if you do not get IT, set the poll aside and come back to you later as an explorer, you will not reach your goal immediately. You need to go on a journey to a remote and unknown destination. This may seem difficult at first, but when you finally make your great discovery, your efforts will be rewarded. Poems that are easy to understand are often less interesting than those that constantly reveal deeper and previous unrecognized meanings. Read these lines and try to find out what they mean. Whose woods these are, I think I know his houses in the village, though he will not see he's stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow from stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert frost. Finally, remember that you do not have to fully understand a poem to appreciate IT you might need to abandon logical thinking to discover its true inner beauty. As long as the journey of poetry reading makes you feel something or let you perceive another level of meaning, IT will have been worth your effort. Poetries combination of sound and sense makes you see the world in a new way and allows you to go beyond Normal ality for the everlasting beauty, enjoy your journey in the world of poetry.