How to read poetry? Why does it feel that he can write a few words in blank instead of changing careers? There is also the feeling that I can't see the meaning of his writing at all, which is a bit ma

How to read poetry? Why does it feel that he can write a few words in blank instead of changing careers? There is also the feeling that I can't see the meaning of his writing at all, which is a bit marginalized. Metaphor, imagination and, of course, the most important thing is sensitivity to words, which depends on conscious accumulation. As far as your poem is concerned, it takes the distance as the main image and has the characteristics of remoteness, loneliness and vastness (which can be drawn from the first half of the poem). In the second half, when you write about stones, blood and Seven Sisters, you express the native local complex and flesh-and-blood affection in Sri Lanka. It may also be related to local legends and stories, mainly about local feelings. Finally, when writing about the wasteland, it means that the homeland has become a wasteland. If you can't come back, you will contact the "distant place", which will deepen this deep sadness. In this way, the first half of the poem is not aimless, but sets the tone for the back and the distance (that is, the homeland).