1)      Read the title and make reflections about conjectures and anticipations it suggests. It is very important because it creates expectations, he prepares the reader to what he found in the text and to made conjectures; it opens an horizon on the possible content of the text.

2)      Analyse the layout (the way the text looks on the page). It is useful to find out text's type and to have a clear idea about is organisation.

3)      Read the text and recognize the denotative level (what the text says at a superficial level)

4)      Make the structural analysis of the text: analyse the parts of the poem and their functions, then recognize the relations between the stanzas.

5)      Do the connotative analysis (what the text says at a deep level) :analyse phonological, semantic, syntactic and rhetorical level and advance hypothesis of what signifies.

6)      Conclusions.

There are more than one interpretation for one text because every interpretation is relative; the reader can advance an interpretation if he can supported it with reference at the text.

Levels of connotative analysis:

ñ  Phonological level: the level of the sound. It is created  by rhythm (alternation between stressed and unstressed syllable), use of alliterations, assonances, rhymes, run-on-lines, repetitions, refrains, use of punctuation, ecc.

ñ  Semantic level: choice of words, used in denotative or  figurative signifies.

ñ  Syntactic level: words order in the phrase. Usually is subject-verb-complement; if there is a language deviation is for communicate something.

ñ  Rhetorical level: figurative use of the language through rhetorical features as simile (comparation with a term for better describe the subject) and metaphor (comparation with a term for give a judgement)