what is the message?
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
according to the poem, what she BE and NOT be?
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the message is that a poem should be enjoyed, experimented and experienced by the reader and it should be an adventurous journey for the reader on the way of finding what the poem means.
but, nowadays, like in classrooms, students are made to sit still and cram the poem and its meanin given by someone. this does not bring any joy but instead it brings a hatred towards poems which are so beautiful.
so because of that poems are losing their charm with minds and it is an insult to the poem as its purpose is not served!
I think its about enjoying the poem for what it is. Not whats below the suface (waterski across the surface of the poem). I think the author feels that trapping poem into a genre or meaning takes away its beauty (penultimate verse). I also think that it means that people are more obsessed about the depth of the poem instead of looking at what its says rather than a representation (Verses 3 -4)
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