Blog Post 2

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I believe what the author is trying to get at is the fact that when writing anything, in this case a poem or any piece of work for that matter, it is difficult to get a certain meaning across to the reader. This is true because everyone has different a back round, or experience growing up. The author could be trying to say something really important to him, yet because the reader is and will never be the author, that idea or concept may never be discovered. The author is trying to get a point across, which is why every stanza he changes the words/phrases, but it is towards the end he realizes that he change all he wants, and that meaning may never be found. 

This is essential, because the last two lines of the poem to me are quite beautiful in comparison to the rest of the rest of the poem. Which shows that even though you can try and try to find that perfect meaning people may never read it exactly like the author would want them too. But, it can actually be written in a way that people can interpret it anyway they like in which case the author is still accomplishing something, possibly even  greater than if only one meaning was taken from it in the first place. This is what the author is trying to say in my opinion and I agree with him. Writers/authors write for people to interpret it not necessarily take one and only one meaning from the piece of work. 

Matt Griffin