How is phenomenological interpretation done?Please give poems that use this approach.

A text can be studied phenomenologically by looking at the
experience of a character or narrator or poetic speaker finds them self in and relating
it to experience that might be the phenomenon precipitating text or reaction recorded in
the text. To give an example, a narrator who has been victimized in the past would
typically be shy of environments which are similar. A common way to bring forth
phenomenology is to define an object by a previous experience with it. If a narrator has
been in a car accident, a fear of driving or riding in a car could form. The character,
then, would consciously make a decision about the object (a car) and their feelings
about it.

To example a poem where phenomenological
interpretation can be used, one can examine the poem "Surgeons must be very careful" by
Emily Dickinson.

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Surgeons must be very
careful

When they take the
knife!

Underneath their fine
incisions

Stirs the culprit, -
Life.

While this poem is very
short, it can be simplistically used to describe phenomenological interpretation. The
speaker in the poem has had a previous experience with a surgeon who has not been
careful with the knife. (This could be during a surgery for the speaker or another
person that the speaker knew/ knows/ or heard of.) The anxiety of the surgeon's knife
exists because of past eexperience with a surgery gone bad. The poem lends itself as a
warning to both surgeons and those who are going to go under the
knife.