In my opinion a poem should be taught in a way that the students will understand but at the same time have fun learning it, aproaching the poem with a variety of tools to analyze each stanza.
Some people like the kind Billy Collins describes in the poem Introduction to poety, they do not analyze the poem, trying to understand each words meaning but they try to force the meaning out of the poem by force which, in my opinion ruins the experiance of learning the poem.
On the other hand, there are few people who really want to enjoy analyzing the poem and in the end understand its meaning, not by rushing through the lines, but just taking the time to see all the little meanings in each stanza.
In the end, I think people should aproach a poem with all of their tools, like Uncovering motives, and Problem solving, to uncover the meaning of the poem and not force anything out of the poem, that way people will actually enjoy reading and analyzing different poems.
