How to Read a Poem by Brooke1020

After reading this instructional about how to approach a poem, there was a sense of relief for me in my approach to poetry.  I have always understood poetry as a form of art using a creative style to say something.  I'm sure that some successful poetry comes in this form, but not all.  In reading this instructional on, How to Read a Poem, it mentions that "sometimes the job of the poem is to come closer to saying what cannot be said in other forms of writing..."  I agree completely with this quote because poetry can take you to an experience or feeling that wouldn't otherwise be able to put into words. 
The piece goes into understanding poetry further with ways to approach certain poems: grammatical tendencies, text and context and talking back to the poem.  I thought this idea of talking back to the poem was a little strange but it can reveal an avenue in which you may be able to find out more about the poem.  Once you can go further than the poem and understand who the author is, a certain time era, etc., then your better able to guess the meaning.  Although, you don't always have to know the meaning of a poem to appreciate it.  Sometimes a poem just is.