The poems that we have read so far have gone right over my head. It seams that poems get so complex that a reader has to read it many times just to understand the "gist of it. I don't know about anybody else, but when I read poems I don't have the creative mind to think of what it means in my thoughts. When I do think of an explanation it ends up being the total opposite of everyone else's and I feel its the wrong answer. I know everyone has their own opinion and own way of thinking but it seems to me that I always go wrong with the poem themes.
The first few poems that we read on Monday were very complex in their wording and made no sense to me. After listening to every ones opinions on what the poems meant I had a small sense of what it could be about. In "Tying the Knot" my group and I thought that it had to do with tying the knot with death; but when we heard the others perception we changed our minds from what we began with. In the other poems, I truly could not get the point of them. Even after the groups described their thoughts, I had no idea to what the poems were about.
I feel that poems are a way for the artist to let out feelings and write about intimate feelings, but I am the person that needs to read a poem over and over again to understand what it means.
