Write a short two page poetry critique about the poem you selected.

Yusef Komunyakaa, “Tu Do Street,”
write a short two page poetry critique about the poem you selected. Your critique should respond to this question, “How did you, as the reader, enter into the poem’s meaning?” Now, to write this critique, it may help to “unpack” what is meant by the term “enter into the poem’s meaning.” This means that every poem’s meaning is dependent upon a number of factors–the poet’s intentions (what the poet envisioned in writing the poem and tried to place within the poem for the reader to grasp and understand); the language of the poem (and what this may mean on the page or read off the page) and language can include symbols, motifs, imagery, elevated language that is lofty or commonplace language of everyday speech, the phrasing and the word choices, breaks and stanzas, and a host of other aspects, and finally that of the reader (what the reader infers from the poem, what the reader believes the meaning is, what the reader’s own experiences are and if the reader can connect to the experiences described in the poem). In this essay, I want you to consider how you “entered” into the poem–did you rely more on what you thought the poet may have meant or intended in the poem or did you rely more on the language of the poem or finally did you rely more on your own ability to connect your experiences to the poem? Perhaps it was some combination of all three or of two of the three. Discuss for the poem you selected how you discovered the poem’s meaning.
This should be two pages in MLA format (Times New Roman 12 font, quotes from the poem with in text citations and a works cited at the end for the poem you selected).