I found that poems can tell a lot more then what they actually say. Since poems are mostly an interpretation you can also interpret what the author is thinking when they are being written. I was raised on listening to poems as a child because my mother always would write them. she would always ask me if I liked them and I would have to say well since I now how you feel right now I can see where you are coming from in this poem. so since I understand how poems can convey different things I wonder what this author was thinking in this poem. I mean was she mad, happy or indifferent. I feel that Poems are like photography or paintings. they both convey something that may not be understood the first time. also the very cool thing about poems and other forms of art is they also reflect what you are feeling as well. if you are mad or angry you will see a poem or a picture in a totally different light then if you were to look at it in a regular state. this poem for today seems to have a sense of urgency as well as a hint of anger, but once again it is hard to say as to what the Authors mood really is although it may seem quit apparent. Poems can be about the abstract as well but this one seems to be very typical and normal (meaning that it is about real events and actions). just like pictures and paintings they can be about things that are not even real which sometimes these ones can be more powerful then ones that are about real life situations. I think of poems as almost like songs. songs are almost the exactly the same thing except for the fact that sangs have music behind them. It would be interesting to see how close a poem could be to a song if it did have music behind it. the only thing that would honestly separate it would be pace of the music, but essentially music is very poetic. this poem has a music like quality to it as well.