What does give your shadow a name means? Is there a clear argument here? Is this writing? Where is the five paragraphs that I am used to see? These are the questions that I was so confused about and for the confusion, I hated poetry, just like you. This is what I used to feel about poetry and the reason I turned to academic essays and scientific papers. They are much more concrete with examples and clear arguments. They don’t leave rooms for interpretation or misunderstanding. Writers show what they mean and mean what they say. And most importantly, why would you need to learn how to read a poem anyway? Knowing how to write a five-paragraph essay should be enough to give you the score you want in the SAT or ACT examination that you are about to face. Poem just seems like a waste of time, or is it? Academic writing is indeed straight forward and easily understandable, but you will be missing out if you stick to academic essays or scientific papers for the rest of your life like what I did before. Marianne Moore once said: “Poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them” (Oliver,1994). Unlike academic essays that carries logistic and systematic reasoning, poem bring wild, imagery and they are thought provoking and reflecting. And to enjoy the artistic value or the deep ideas that the author hide under the curtain, we must first understand how a poem make meaning. Most of the time, poems make meaning with imagery. Mary Oliver once wrote “the language of the poem is the language of particulars. Without it, poetry might still be wise, but it would surely be pallid. And thin. It is detailed, sensory language incorporating images that gives the poem dash and tenderness. And authenticity.” (Oliver, 1994) One of the main way that poem communicate with the readers is through imagery and metaphor. Poems are usually less direct but more artistically oriented. Unlike a scientific paper and academic essays, poems follow the rule of show, don’t tell. Poem is defined as a “piece of writing in which the words are carefully chosen for the images and ideas they suggest, and in which the sounds of the words when read aloud often follow a particular rhythmic pattern” in Cambridge dictionary (poem, n.d). Although this may sound overwhelmingly complicated for people like us who work with numbers and figures all day, we actually experience imagery day to day. Our day to day visit: Facebook or YouTube uses im>