Traditional approaches to interpret poetry have been poet-oriented,appearing alien to reader’s understanding and appreciation,which are generally insensitive to the aesthetic and emotional reflection during the process of analyzing poetry.This essay aims to combine cognitive poetics with multimodal discourse analysis(MDA)to analyze concrete poems from readers’angle.In this research,figure and ground,conceptual metaphor,and image schema of cognitive poetics are adopted to interpret A War Symphony and l(a from the perspective of visual modality and auditory modality.Meanwhile,the differences between Chinese and English concrete poetry in modality choosing and meaning conveying as well as the reasons are explored.This research reveals that readers are able to comprehend poetic meaning according to their life experiences.The multi-dimensional perspective of visual and auditory modalities is conductive to exploring how readers challenge traditional reading mode to interpret poetic ideas.Meanwhile,three theories of cognitive poetics facilitate readers to perceive poetics effect with a cognitive mechanism.Therefore,all of these efforts are bound to arouse readers’interest in such a kind of anti-traditional poetry and broaden its popularity. Traditional approaches to interpret poetry have been poet-oriented, appearing alien to reader’s understanding and appreciation, which are generally insensitive to the aesthetic and emotional reflection during the process of analyzing poetry. This essay aims to combine cognitive poetics with multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) to analyze concrete poems from readers’angle. In this research, figure and ground, conceptual metaphor, and image schema of cognitive poetics are interpreted to interpret A War Symphony and l (a from the perspective of visual modality and auditory modality. differences between Chinese and English concrete poetry in modality choosing and meaning conveying as well as the reasons are explored.This research reveals that readers are able to comprehend poetic meaning according to their life experiences.The multi-dimensional perspective of visual and auditory modalities is conductive to exploring how readers challenge traditional reading mode to interpret poetic ideas .Meanwhile, three theories of cognitive poetics facilitate readers to perceive poetics effect with a cognitive mechanism. Before, all of these efforts are bound to arouse readers’interest in such a kind of anti-traditional poetry and broaden its popularity.