Reading, Feeling, Interpreting: A Student Mentoring Program to Enhance Poetry Interpretation Skills

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This Community Service activity aims to enhance the poetry interpretation skills of students in the Indonesian Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Malikussaleh University through a structured mentoring program. The problem faced is the low ability of students to understand, feel, and interpret poetry deeply, caused by a lack of appreciative experience and systematic guidance. The implementation method of the activity includes intensive mentoring, interpretation practice, interactive discussion, and periodic evaluation. The mentoring was conducted using the reading, feeling, interpreting approach that emphasizes literal comprehension, emotional appreciation, and critical interpretation of poetry. The results of the activity showed a significant improvement in students' skills in identifying poetic elements, capturing connotative meanings, and constructing logical and personal interpretations. This activity also had a positive impact on increasing students' self-confidence, aesthetic sensitivity, and critical thinking skills. Thus, this mentoring program contributes to strengthening students' literary appreciation competence and supports the achievement of learning objectives in accordance with the Tri Dharma of Higher Education.