sonett fun

I thought it was so cool when we went back through the sonnet "When my love swears that she is made of truth" and found how differently it could be interpreted. Sonnets are so functional, they are like little math problems that you have to correctly formulate to "equal" exactly what you want it to mean. But at the same they are like secret riddles that you have to uncode to find the true meaning. I wonder if writers of sonnets intentionally pick these words to have both meanings, I'm sure they do, but still. I feel like every time i read a poem now I'm going to have to have a dictionary next to me so i can look up every word and find the many different meanings it has. Maybe all writers use this. It would be interesting to go through the sound and the fury and see if there is any "uncoding" to do. I'm competing in Poetry Out loud and thought it would be fun to see if my poem has any hidden meanings. http://poetryoutloud.org/poem/171246 <-- my poem didn't really have as awesome of a turn out as the sonnet in class did. But looking up each word did help me understand my poem more and had me look at it in a different way than i normally would. Writers of poems especially have to pick words very economically to get their point across because unlike writers of novels, they are focusing on one particular event or emotion, so being precise is very important. Knowing this has made reading and understanding poetry much easier and even a little more fun :)