uhhhhh NOT poems

Poems really as if this could get any worse!In the first poem Haas talks about how hard it is to describe the way a tree moves in the wind and Jones is on the ocean.
Both poems talk about the difficulty of launguage, what i mean by this is how the writer may mean one thing but the reader may take the phrase or book and portray it in a totally different way. With words meaning so many different things how can you say something and expect for someone to know exactly what you mean unless you are there to explain exactly what you mean! Writers have a very difficult time in order to make sure their meaning is understood.
Haas uses a tree to explain the growth of launguage by using a tree. A tree is planted as a sapling and grows and grows until it is a large and gorgeous part of nature. The vocabulary and meanings of words grow like the trees grows showing the true difficulty of using one word to just mean one thing.
I rather liked the metaphor that Jones used to get his point across. When he pours the drink into the water and it is dissolved and becomes part of the whole ocean. When you write the meaning you try to get across can be lost in the ocean of words just like the drink is lost in the water. Words have many meanings and when read by another that meaning that you once saw so clear when you wrote it or said it can be lost, misunderstood, and misconstrued into the way the reader or listener believes it to be or wants it to be.