What does this poem mean?

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i wrote a poem as extra credit for my English class. I write what I feel and i don't know what the hell it means. what does this mean to you?

I follow the wind today.
Seas of grass engulf my way.
But now i flow in direction of my peers
For is this truly my way to fears?

I look at each blade, they are all the same.
Time and time i cannot blame.
The wind is too strong for me to oppose
But with love, i can become a rose.

I trust neither wind or blade that flows my way
For it is benevolence, my heart is not to say
For i am en entitled to a rose.
To resist the way, the wind, flows.

Butchy Karen · Accepted Answer

it means you put generic imagery together to make a generic poem to get a decent grade.

Yesennia · Answer

With an e e cummings poem, saying "This is what it means to me" is like trying to nail Jello to a tree. This poem has always seemed very pro-feminist, or at least anti anti-feminist. It talks about independent thinking to me. Effie (a name that sounds suspiciously like the word "iffy") apparently never thought for herself and all that's left of her crumbly brain is a bunch of subjunctives: woulda, coulda ,shoulda, musta. Even God looks on those 6 crumbs with puzzlement; even His omniscience can't fathom why a person would live her life allowing others to think for her.

lynx · Answer

In my opinion the author is writing about being a follower and not a leader feeling that peer pressure of having sex is the only way to have a partner the author would like to have the strength to stand up and be a leader and not use sex as a tool but scared to make that choice

Jacey · Answer

You distrust love, yet you find that your always drawn to it. 
Through time your heart withdraws itself from all the tension, the beauty and it begins to stray. You fight a uncommon battle that puts you in a place of an abyss. With this peom you are trying to make sense of it all.

Blingard · Answer

To me its talking about the pressure of society, and how we are "forced" follow what is expected of us
Such as the blades all being the same, and following peers etc

Anonymous · Answer

The first stanza means to me that your used to be a free spirit however due to fear your under the influence of peer pressure now.
Second stanza is that you think that you can be special yet peer pressure from society is to strong you feel.

Don't trust society's peer pressure You think you are entitled to be special or at least a chance at being special however the truth is eventually we all sell out to society.some sooner so later.  We all sell out or get run over.

Good Luck

sinzone · Answer

to me it luks like peer presure.u wnt to oppose it but u cnt.u think highly of ur self which is good but u also have trust issues.u sound a lil scared but dnt wana show it at the same time.
dats what i understood.hope dat helped.

Anonymous · Answer

it means that your struggling to go against something like an opposite of what you truly are and your asking that with help you can get past that struggling but now you trust not anybody cause your afraid of be trail

*~MOI~* · Answer

i'm not that experienced, but atleast i can tell how it makes me feel...
it tells me that you are accepting your life as it is but are still in hope or waiting for something better to come.

i love the poem

Elmo Love You · Answer

Your life journey or what happens in a life, with struggles or pain or happiness

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What does this poem mean?

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