Advice on understanding poetry better.

[Magpie]

I think it's very important to understand as much as you can about life, and bring that to your understanding of written poetry, and other art forms.

Another important thing needed in understanding is desperation.

Thanks rowens,
That does actually make a lot of sense and it is what I used to do and still do as regards music. I am a musician first and foremost and I always believed that the more I experienced in life the better a musician I became and it is true. And for whatever reason I failed to act in the same way as regards poetry, it is as if I am thinking it instead of feeling it, the way I do with music.
It makes sense, or I should say, it feels right.
Thank you.