Interpreting ancient poems is like doing anything. You must finish what you started, and you must choose what is worth doing and put it into action.
Interpreting ancient poetry is like talking to the author and the era in which he lives. The poet's direct expression of his mind or antique implication is related to his situation at that time. We can know a person through a poem and grasp an era through a collection of poems.
When reading ancient poems, I am most afraid of taking them out of context, only looking for beautiful words, but ignoring the meaning of the whole poem, ignoring that a poem is only the expression of the author at a certain stage and moment. Don't jump to conclusions just because of one sentence.
Poetry cannot express itself, and a famous translator may not be able to express the poet's original intention or satisfy all readers. Therefore, poetry seems to be more suitable for a person to read and ponder, and can also have different feelings about life in different situations, not to mention ethereal words.
Having said that, it seems that there is no way to interpret ancient poems, but things go hand in hand. Since the poet wrote this article at the moment, there must be a reason. So we can trace back to the source, for example, because we are down and out, we feel incompetent, because we are demoted, we make a voice of grief and indignation, and so on. Knowing the background of poetry, we can get a general idea of ancient poetry.
I also have a suggestion that we can do comparative literature in this kind of literature. For example, we can compare several writers, compare similar works, compare the works of the same writer in different periods from a certain angle, and so on, so that we can have new insights, quote classics, widely quote and fully demonstrate, and maybe you can become an academic master. This is a small idea of mine. I'm afraid I'll laugh at Fang Jia, but let's get down to business.
In my humble opinion, I sum up the following points for reference and can't help but omit them. Please forgive me.
First of all, understand the background knowledge of ancient poetry, such as author, era, life, thoughts and so on.
Then, understand the basic knowledge of ancient poetry, such as title, meaning, sentence reading, theme and so on.
Then, understand the extended knowledge of ancient poetry, such as style, genre, influence, inheritance and so on.
Seriously understand the artistic conception, images, emotions, rhythms, artistic techniques, artistic features and diction of ancient poems.
Finally, on the basis of understanding, memory, taste, perception and sublimation.
Ancient poetry can be studied in this way, and literary works such as ancient prose can refer to this way and analyze specific problems.