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Listening & Speaking: get involved as much as you can with your class-mates. Learning a language by using it everyday is the quickest way to become fluent in it.

Reading also helps a ...

Although obvious, the first thing you must do is read the poem! After reading two or three times, try an ascertain the premise of the poem: who/what is it about? If this proves difficult, try and determin...

I always found it useful to use the following structure when reading a piece of poetry for the first time, and even after that:

Language - What devices are used and why? For example, does...

To begin with, you can vary your vocabulary and your sentence/paragraph structure. However in the end what makes a piece of writing interesting varies depending on its purpose. So you need to become fa...

I find poems to be the best way to tackle and anaylsis question. The way to look at them is in a series of steps.

First off I look at the poem as a whole, what is the general message and ...