Poems are best read aloud because you receive a more vivid outlook on the poem. Poem's are better understood when read aloud.

I believe poems use language by they way they are read. Poems are best read aloud because you understand the differenet tone and feeling being used to express what the writer is trying to say.

How Does a Poem Mean?

A poems meaning can be interpreted in many different fashions and the meanigns vary between each reader because people may interpret what the author is trying to say differently. Reading a poem out loud or hearing a poem read out loud may also bring people to feel differently about a poems meaning. If certain words are more stressed during the reading, or the tone is set in a low, slow sound compared to a fast, more upbeat sound the poem being read may be interpreted differently according to the reader's sound.

A Poem can be interprented differently by different people. Ones interpretation of a poem depends on ones background and how the poem affects them emontionally, mentally and personally.

Poems can be used for many reasons, and I believe that when many read a poem out loud, many rhythmic factors can be detected. Such factors are meter, rhyme scheme, and rhythm. Usually, poems are read with a certain rhythm which plays effect on the meaning of a poem. But when asked, "How does a poem mean," consider this: poems are only meant as interpretation. We don't know how or what a poem means; we can only interpret. As it was said in class, what is in a poem is only as effective as the argument or interpretation. If someone reads a poem and finds something, and has some key elements in the poem to prove that, then that's how a poem means. A poet uses rhythm and makes a poem melodious, which plays a bigger effect on the reader.

In answer to the second question first, poems are best read aloud because they're supposed to be read aloud.

It is at that point you can feel the rhythm and hear the similarities in the sight rhymes like races and "race is" or theirs, lairs and unawares.

When read aloud, various meanings come alive and expose themselves to the reader, don't they? It happens that way with me. Reading them aloud allows me to get more from them.

Regarding language: As Dr. Jerz said, poetry thrives on ambiguity. When we discussed "Mending Wall", how many different ideas and meanings did we identify? Too many for me to count.

Frost was keen to use language to reveal different meanings and it seems to me he was very meticulous about it. There were times when I thought "had he used such-and-such, then the line would have been more tidy." But Frost used the words he chose on purpose, not only to rhyme, but to reveal more than one meaning. It was masterful, or so I thought.

His use of language was threefold or more. Not only is it descriptive, but it rhymes and it reveals more than one meaning.

That devotion to precisely convey the meaning he wanted made me appreciate the mental energy he must have expended to produce a four or five stanza poem. Quite impressive - to me anyway.

When placed alongside "The World Trade Center" it's easy to see why Frost is held in such high regard.

A poem is best when read out loud, because you can you hear the emotions.