What does this poem mean to you?

I dont really get it.But i think it means life changes dramatically?it means more than that.I dont know the author I just read it in a book called 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'.i think I read it's also akid's suicide note.

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines

He wrote a poem

And he called it "Chops"

because that was the name of his dog

And that's what it was also all about

And the teacher gave him an A

and a gold star

And his mother hung it on the kitchen door

and read it to his aunts

That was the year father Tracy

took all the kids to the zoo

And he let them sing on the bus

And his little sister was born

with tiny toenails and no hair

And his mother and father kissed a lot

And the girl around the corner sent him a

Valentine signed with a row of X's

and he had to ask his father what the X's meant

And his father always tuck him to bed at night

And was always there to do it

Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines

he wrote a poem

And he called it "Autumn"

What does this poem mean to you?

It's about the slow, steady death of innocence and the wilting of achievement by ambivalence. The subject of the poem watches as the scenes that once brought pleasure, slowly change to things ignored, taken for granted and ultimately discarded as being polluted or tainted. It is actually a very well written piece, whoever wrote it knew how to draw the reader in and turn it to an inevitable end...one the reader hoped would be different, but knew on a visceral level would end just the way it did.

It also shows how you can use mirrored lines across stanzas to tell a story that doesn't circle back onto itself, it corkscrews slowly to oblivion.

Very well done

What does this poem mean to you?

o...k...?

What does this poem mean to you?

to me it means your life goes on with changes and sometimes you get a lot of different answers and sometimes you can't rember the question to the answer

What does this poem mean to you?

It's difficult to say... I'd have to say that his life when he was a child was so much brighter than it is now. From yellow paper with green lines to white paper with blue lines. From bright to drab. Not all poems can be understood, but it shares some kind of awkward silence. I felt kind of bad when my teachers and peers didn't get my poems because I thought they said a lot. It seems like the "he" in this poem didn't feel as much happiness as he did when he was younger. He could write about dogs and friends and fathers and zoos, but all he had to write about afterwards was Autumn. Just a season. Maybe he felt like there was nothing left for him. =/ What a sad poem if I understood correctly.

What does this poem mean to you?

It means stuff about things and stuff.

What does this poem mean to you?

It is about Innocence, Discovery (of self), and Death.

1. DEATH I think the author is dead. He put the poem wrote on the paper bag on the bathroom door, because he is bleeding to death by cutting his wrists (so he cannot make it to the kitchen).

2. DISCOVERY In each verse, he grows older and as he does so, he comes to see the world for what it really is; And that people had lied about certain things (i.e Santa Claus).

The authors' final discovery is Nothing.

3. INNOCENCE Lots of examples here: Parents kissing in the first verse, not so in the last. The simple XXX's on the valentine when young, to the distaste sensed when kissing a girl later on.

The key is- all the innocence is corrupted in the end.

RIP the author :p