Consider the connotation of particularly suggestive words. Identify the poem as a lyric, a short poem that expresses the feelings of a single speaker, a narrative, a poem that tells a story, or a didactic poem that communicates information about a subject matter. 9. Consider that the poem may convey meaning by using allusions, indirect references to any person, place, or thing 10. Look for images, that refer to a sensory experience. The experience may be a sight, a sound, or a touch.
Images can provide a setting or a mood.
To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden back. Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.