Introduction to Poetry

I thought the structure of this poem was interesting, the author beings many of his stanza's with I and these stanza's differ from one to three lines. The structure is simple but it flows well. As for the meaning of the poem, I believe the author meant that what he wants is for people to simply enjoy a poem but instead he says that people analyze it too much and look too hard for a deeper meaning. This is shown in the lines where he says, "I want them to water ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."
We have discussed this in class, that we analyze things too much which I think is very true. Some things are meant to be symbolic but others like this poem has the meaning right in front of us, we do not need to look for a deeper meaning.