Before reading any piece of literature it is important to understand that each piece is a piece of art, it explains meaning differently with the aid of words. Each piece is written by an artist with a purpose to ultimately convey a message. Therefore before reading the piece, I go into it with an open mind, it is important to be accepting of all thoughts and styles to ease the understanding. Another strategy is to break down the artists’ background. A lot of the times there is an introduction explaining the personal life and type of artist they are, this gives a better understanding when approaching the reading so I can connect the words to the author’s character and find the underlying meaning. When it came to Sappho’s Fragments, I have never seen a poem styled like it so I automatically read the background. That is where I found useful information about the artist and was able to create expectation and strategies how to read and understand. Moving forward I read the piece in its entirety, then went back to try and break it down. To break it down my ideas where to find the strengths in the poems, those I consider to be the parts of repetition and subjects. It is important for me to find the subject and point of view so I can read from a perspective to connect with the subjects ideas and feelings. In this poem there was also an extreme use of brackets, these I used as a tool. For example, some lines start with and open or closed bracket, I tried to find first where it was opened and connected it to the first ending bracket, that is where I thought the idea would be closed.