How to appreciate foreign poetry?

Get familiar with the history of foreign literature, the styles and artistic features of various schools, so that you can know which school it is, and then contact what you have learned. Second, learn western literary theories and literary introductions, so as to ensure that your appreciation is organized and theoretical. Third, buy a special foreign poetry appreciation book, and Peking University is the best.

No matter what kind of poetry, foreign poetry or China poetry, ancient poetry or modern poetry, we should appreciate it from the aspects of image, emotion, the tempering of words and the structure of the whole poem.

Foreign poetry pays special attention to the image and structure in poetry, because foreign poetry often uses analogy, and often a subtle thing represents or implies the poet's special feelings. In order to understand this, it is necessary to have a certain understanding of the background of poetry creation.

Because poetry is private, only the poet himself knows best what he wants to express, so to understand poetry, we must first read the poet's life; As for the structure, it is because of the special rhyming ways of foreign poems, such as AABB and ABBA.