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Poetry is a difficult subject for people to fully grasp, including me. I find it hard to read a published poem, and examine it to find the underlying meaning, when most of the time there is. I have scoured the internet searching for poems that I would place as my Goldilocks too easy, too difficult, and just right poems and have realized now some of the reasons behind my struggles with poetry. The poets I have chosen my pieces from are Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and Erin Hanson. “Welcome To Society” by Erin Hanson is placed as my too easy poem because of its straightforwardness. When you read this poem there isn’t much to expand on it. Despite its connotation such as imagery and symbolism, for me, I couldn’t find any double meanings such …show more content…

When first reading this poem I got lost multiple times. I couldn’t keep my focus while reading it because lines didn’t make sense to me and there were words I didn’t know the definition to. After looking up definitions and re-reading the poem, I started to understand it and interpret what the poem meant. In lines 3-5 that say, “thus much let me avow- you are not wrong, who deem that my days have been a dream” the poem became confusing to me. I now know that the poem is about a person passing and how life is almost unreal and insubstantial when you can’t hold on to someone who has passed. The lines stated earlier confused me for the rest of the poem because of how it talked about death. However, I couldn’t really relate to it and understand what Edgar Allan Poe was getting across in the poem. I recently lost my dog and so I went to revisit the poem and it all clicked. Death is a topic in this society that people don’t bring up very often and talk about and for me this is a main reason it makes this poem difficult. What also makes this troublesome is how nothing is answered in the poem. Poe introduced how death relates to our dreams, yet never answered the lingering question of how our lives may just be nothing if we will end up the same way as did the people that have passed on. This makes us hesitate and wonder about what said in the poem after which to me makes a great poem and

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