Official Review: Making Sense of Poetry by Rex W Last

[Samuel Mamo]

I don't know how it helps for a person using English as a foreign language. But sounds helpful.

[Judiasanti]

I know poetry is words and sentences with deep meaning. But to understand the meaning of a poem is hard for me. And refering the review, this book contains the steps to comprehend and interpret a poetry. So this book is educating and useful for everyone who wants to learn poems. Very good book. I want to read it too.

[Favour Uwa]

Among the three genres of literature, poetry always poses some difficulty to me, even as a literary student. The major area i still found difficult is determining the rhythm and in some cases rhymes of a poem. So, i think this book will be very useful to me. Thanks for your review.

[Pearl Hijabi]

A book with tips to understand poetry better looks quite helpful to me. While I enjoy some poetry, sometimes I don't get the meanings of some. The book sounds like a must read for me. Congrats on BOTD!!

[Wycliffe M]

This book is seemingly amazing and it has given me an high sense of understanding of a poetry because I have always loved so much to read poetry books like this one, I thank you for a good review.

[Guda Lydia]

I admit poetry can be a bit complex and confusing at times. This is a unique and helpful book to help one enjoy and interact with the poems. Quite helpful. Congratulations on the BOTD.

[Joseph Karuru]

Poetry has been one of the genres that many readers don't have a clear understanding of..me included. I believe reading this book will bring clarity and make it easier for many readers to enjoy poetry. That's a good review!

[Vidhi Adhikari]

This is something that could come in handy for me as I too struggle with understanding poetry. Will surely read this one.

[jaym_tan]

Poetry can be confusing to figure out and read sometimes so this is helpful for those who want to understand the meaning behind some beautiful poetries. Congrats on botd!

[Nerea]

Wow. This is going to be one of the ideal guides for my poetry writing project. I'm still polishing my poetry skills, and with this book, I believe I can pick some ideas to harness my poetry writing skills. Congratulations to the author and on being the BOTD

[Stephane L]

I thank the author because he helps us to know and above all to understand poetry

[Ruchi Raina]

Understanding poetry is a task for me. This book will come in handy to help with that. The author has talked about the 12 commandments that are the steps to understand poetry. Congratulations on BOTD!

[Mary Rose Cajayon]

Very helpful book to those who are amateur in reading poetry. Reading poetry is most of the time difficult because the reader has to dig deeper to decipher the emotions of the poet. This will help to understand the beautiful poetries. Congrats BOTD!

[dragonet07]

It’s great that Last tries to make understanding and interpreting poetry more accessible to more people. I’m curious to see if he truly managed to do it. My focus in school was prose, particularly fiction, but I took many poetry-related courses as well—as both a reader/interpreter and a poet—that have contributed to my love/hate relationship with poetry, so it’ll be interesting to see if a book like this would be able to help future English majors. Thank you for the helpful review.

[Wayne Njoroge]

Poetry is a language on its own. It is a language of the heart that bypasses the mind. I am impressed with the author's efforts in coming up with a book that helps people understand poetry: offering practical tests to help along the way.