I want to share with you the activity which I called "poems-rendering sessions". This activity helps those students who either refuse to interpret the poem or who are passive or silenced for the teacher's interpretation of the poem. You can divide the class into small groups of three or four and offer them a chart with the directions:

1. Read the poem aloud, each person reading a part.

2. Don't talk about the poem. But have a conversation with each other using just the words from the text, the words might be in any order.

3. Compose or recompose the poem in a group.

4. Do free-writing whatever you are thinking about the poem. Write anything you want to say about the poem.

5. Choose a part or all of your adaptation of the poem to present as a group performance of it and rehearse it. The phrases may be in any order.

6.As a group, present your adaptation of the poem for the whole class.

This activity may be tried out with texts too. Usually my Ss like to express their creativity through the interpretation. It gives them a new insight into literature.