Blog-Writing Prompt #2

What is the most valuable thing you learned last year in Language Arts and, why?

I think the most valuable thing I learned in Language Arts last year is to learn how to interpret poems. Before that, I would just read the poem and roughly know the meaning of it, however, after the literature lessons on poems, I learned how to idenitfy the poetic devices used by the poet and what is he/she trying to convey to the reader.