People sometimes tell me  they have trouble understanding poetry.  That's because they consume it as they would a banana, starting at one end and chomping down to the other.  Poetry has to be consumed like  corn on the cob.  One should start at one end and work down to the other, but then one has to  go back to the beginning -- change one's angle of perspective -- and - again - go from one end to the other.  I can't emphasize this point about changing  one's angle of perspective enough.   There is a difference: with corn on the cob, one rotates the corn, but, with poetry, one has to rotate something  within the reader. Otherwise, one is just chomping into an empty rut - a track devoid of sustenance.  Then, one has to repeat the process until every last morsel has been consumed.   That's how one digests poetry.