Eight Movements

[Leanne]

It's a different experience, this abandoning what you think you would mean and trying to get inside the writer's skin. It's an important step though (and I don't mean to sound condescending) -- it means that you are better able to critique poems that you don't necessarily like, or aren't close in style to your own. The more you do it -- like anything -- the easier it gets.

If there's a point you'd like me to clarify, so you can tell whether you're on the right track, you can always send me a pm... but I don't think anyone here will might in the slightest if you're experimenting with interpreting their poems