1. How do you know who the "I" is and who the "them" is?
2. What does the "I" want "them" to do with this poem?
3. Why can't they do it?
4. How does the image of water skiing suggest how readers should read poems?
5. What is the analogy at the end of the poem?
6. Comment on the poem's structure, especially its placement of lines and its opening words.

Let’s start off by who “I” and “Them” is .

The “I” can mean the author or the poem. Meaning it can be the poem is trying to convey (show) its meaning to ‘THEM’

Now ‘them’ can mean a sort of person or the reader of this poem. When the author quotes “I) want “them” to water ski - across the surface of this poem waving at the author’s name from the shore” means that “The Author or someone who wrote this poem in meaning of something else or person.

This poem purpose is to convey (show) any reader who is called (them) to understand what reading this poem means.

For example, a boy writing his first love letter to a girl in his personal journal .

He only knows who (I) is and who them is . He’s hoping that she will read his love letter one day understanding his love or (meaning) behind his words.