Eating Poetry is an assignment about analyzing a poem by Mark Strand. The poem Eating Poetry, uses figurative language to symbolically represent the speaker's feelings about reading poems. This assignment uses Thinking and Problem Solving because you use literary analysis to figure out what the poem means. The poem challenges you with its unique figurative language. I developed an understanding for this poem by using literary analysis to understand the speaker's feelings in this poem. This assignment has grown my understanding for poetry or other literature using figurative language.