1. Combine the annotations to understand the creative background.
2. Understand the poet’s life.
3. Clarify the symbolic meaning of the image. The images in classical poems generally have fixed symbolic meanings. For example, pine and plum trees symbolize noble integrity; peonies symbolize wealth; willow trees symbolize farewell and nostalgia, etc. When poets use these images, they usually connect them with themselves to express their ambitions. In this way, based on their inherent symbolic meaning and combined with specific poems, the main idea is not difficult to understand.
4. Be good at discovering the "eye for poetry". In a poem, the poetic eye often reflects the emotional tone of the whole poem and shows the thoughts of the whole poem. It is the vocabulary in poetry that best embodies the spirit of things, expresses the poet's feelings, and has the strongest generalization power. Appreciating poetry is to grasp the most refined and expressive words in the poem to taste it, and see its role in expanding the artistic conception of the poem and conveying the poet's emotions.
5. Use the structure of poetry to understand the content of poetry. Poems that touch the scene and evoke emotions usually first have the scene and then the emotion; poems that use the scenery to express emotions usually start with the emotion and then the scene. Understanding the structure of poetry can help us understand its content faster and better.
6. When facing problems with ancient poetry, you must read the title, author, and annotations carefully, find out the imagery and poetic eye, understand the structure of the poem, and combine it with the overall situation. The problem itself, I believe it can be solved easily.