Why do i not understand poetry?
I love reading
any books, plays, short stories, etc.
hard novels or easy stories i understand an get grasped in them
but i have a hard time understanding poetry
i just make nothing out of some lines and so i keep going and don’t find a purpose to it
i was reading this
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
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but i only know what happens because they told me
what can i do to help myself
better understand poems!!?
- 5842
