This paper,using English poems and opening excerpt as research sample,conducts an empirical study on readers’ agreement. Rating scales and open-ended interviews alike have been employed in different parts of the experiment. Data show a commonality of response in five areas: language appreciation,relationship between phrases,intrinsic structure; and authoritative discourse and principle of politeness. The first three come from semantic restriction in textual interpretation agreement and the last two from pragmatic restriction in textual interpretation agreement.