While I never seem to quite understand many aspects of poetry, it does not deter how much I might like a certain poem. The poetry that Tocqueville demonstrates is no less as difficult to sort through. Some of the poems were complex with meanings that slide past me, while others were so silly, such as the subject of food, that I had to read over them again to get the meaning from them. Even the smaller poems had plenty of emotion and meaning to them. I personally enjoyed the lighter poems that I felt confident I understood.

For most of the poems, however, I found myself annoying my sister, begging her to explain a verse or just talking through it. While I enjoy writing poems Tocqueville shows me why I don't read them to often.