Poetry Appreciation Assistant

Problem Solved

Poetry Appreciation Assistant addresses concrete barriers when reading poems: unclear literal meaning, hard-to-name techniques, and vague explanations of why a poem works. It does not produce a standard answer; instead, it turns a poem into plain-language translation, emotional arc, imagery, rhetoric, meter, and allusion, which is useful for classroom study, casual reading, and comparative analysis.

How It Works and Limits

The skill first confirms the text, author, user goal, and focus, then outputs a multi-dimensional reading. Core steps include:
- Plain translation: removes textual barriers so the poem can be retold, not just memorized
- Imagery analysis: explains common symbols like moon, willow, and wutong, plus why words such as straight or round carry force
- Technique review: identifies personification, couplet structure, and reduplication, then explains why they are effective
- Meter and sound: analyzes pingsze, rhyme, parallelism, and cipai, using Pingshui Rhyme and flagging disputed ru-sheng cases when needed

It supports readers from zero base to intermediate levels, and adapts to jueju, lushi, gushi, ci, modern poetry, and translated foreign poems. It does not write original poems, replace academic research, or provide exam standard answers directly; for tests, it can organize scoring points, but users should condense them independently.