Real meaning?

For a better understanding of literature, I'll analyze the next poem with some few questions.

You fit into me

You fit into me

like a hook into an eye

A fish hook

An open eye

1        1.What is the relationship between the title and the rest of the poem?

As usual, the title is also the theme of the poem.

2      2.What words, if any, need to be defined (for example, are you familiar with a hook-and-eye clasping system in clothing)?

Hook-and-eye: A clothes fastener consisting of a small blunt metal hook that is inserted in a corresponding loop or eyelet. (www.thefreedictionary.com).

3        3.What relationships do you see among any words in the poem?

They are put in a way that, when you start reading you expect to find some type of love poem, but finally, you find that it wasn't that the purpose of the text.

4     4.What are the various connotative meanings of the words in the poem? Do these various shades of meaning help establish relationships or patterns in the text?

When you first read "You fit into me, like a hook into an eye", you think that one person was made for being with the other one, but when you read the other two lines "A fish hook, An open eye", you realize that it meant something painful, unforgettable.

5        5.What symbols, images or figures of speech are used? What is the relationship between them?

The entire poem is ambiguous. They all want to, at first, let us think it's something romantic, but then, we realize that is meant something horrorful.

6       6.What elements of rhyme, meter or pattern can you discuss?

It has got no rhyme, except for the repetition in lines two and four of the word "eye". In all the rest of it, it has no pattern.

7       7.What is the tone of the poem?

At first sight, love. After understanding the real meaning, madness or anger.

8       8. From what point of view is the content of the poem being told?

From a person that was hurt by his/her date.

9       9.What tensions, ambiguities or paradoxes arise within the poem?

An ambiguity could be find in the "hook into an eye" expression. Hook and eye, can mean a clothing fastener, or literally a hook inserted into an eye.

1     10.What do you believe the chief paradox or irony is in the text?

The "hook into an eye" expression, that in one part, means love, but also hate.

1     11. How do all of the elements of the poem support and develop the primary paradox or irony?

The element that support more the development of the paradox, is the ambiguity that expresses "hook into an eye". All of the present elements in the text, demonstrate the persona's feelings, and as it happens, his/her feelings are not clear and have a combination of love and hate to that person.

I think the real meaning of this poem was not the expected one, as it was hate and not love. In my case, I have realized through the reading of this poem, that not always our feelings are clear. Sometimes you like something, but also dislike it. This is how literature should be, expressive and ambiguous.