[Interpretation] Linx Definition/Example/Significance/Picture

Interpretation
My definition of interpretation is the idea the reader compiles using details mentioned in the poem.

For example in the poem O' Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman, the reader can interpret that the poem is about the victory on the north in the American Civil War and the death/ assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

The significance of interpretation in a poem is to help the reader create a better understanding of the poem.

At plain view this photo looks like and elderly couple staring at each other, that's your interpretation. It's actually, a person under a tent with a basket on the left and a person with a sombrero playing the guitar on the right.