http://www.poets.org//viewmedia.php/prmMID/21895
Testy Pony is a nice, short poem that tells a sort of sad little story concerning the relationship between a man and his pony. I decided to send this to my girlfriend, Suzy because I know she likes reading poetry and she also loves animals such as ponies. I didn't know really why I wanted her to read it except for the fact that it mentioned ponies.
She said it was nice and that the narrative poem is revealing of human nature. A lot of people don't trust one another and even when someone does something nice or helpful to another person, some individuals still don't realize that they might have been viewing the other person in an unfairly negative light. The narrator in Testy Pony feels bad after the pony has proven him wrong and leaps over the river. If the narrator in this poem feels remorse, then is it possible to apply that when concerning our fellow humans when they perform a deed of good will?
These conclusions that my girlfriend got from the poem strike me because the first readings didn't generate those ideas in my head about human nature and such. In the textbook, Backpack Literature, they suggest listening to other people read poems so you can maybe get different meanings or point-of-views that you might have not perceived. Since I shared this poem with Suzy, I learned how important it is to paraphrase a poem as they suggest in the book because the perceived meaning of a poem might vary with different persons.
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