Poetry Prep

• What are your usual strategies for reading a poem?
• My usual strategies for reading a poem is to find the meaning of words that I don't know or am not familiar with and discussing the meaning of the poem with other people to look at different opinions.
• How many times do you read the poem?
• I would usually read it a couple of times to see if I had miss out on any important keywords or hints.
• Do you read the footnotes (if they exist)?
• Not really, no. :(
• Do you use a dictionary?
• Yes.
• Do you read the poem aloud?
• No.
• Do you take notes?
• Yes.
• What problems do you have?
• Understanding some words, but with a dictionary, poems are actually fun to read.