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My first impression of Dodo’s Conundrum wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either. The poem wasn’t very hard to understand so that was nice, but I didn’t love it. I mean I liked it some but it wasn’t one of my favorites. I liked that he used many allusions because it made it easier to understand what was going on in the poem. It allowed him to not have to explain exactly what he was thinking or feeling and left it up to the reader to interpret it. I think that the theme is that if you want to change your experience then you have to change your patterns. I think that throughout the poem the author made it clear that what seemed to be the perfect model world wasn’t enough and what was his life wasn’t good enough either but he wasn’t doing anything about it. He was just observing everything but not taking action. I didn’t really have any questions after I did the sound and sense questions. Once we did those it helped everything make sense and come together. The sound and sense questions were much easier to do then they were for Eldorado. I still have some trouble identifying the rhyme scheme and patterns, but it is getting easier the more I do it. I liked this poem more than Eldorado because I thought it was easier to understand. I also thought that the topic and theme was more relevant to my own life. In Eldorado, I couldn’t relate to what was going on or the idea of searching for wealth and material things but never finding it, where Dodo’s Conundrum was easier to relate to because sometimes you are just an observer and are not doing anything to change the events in your life. Now that I have had to write some poetry I pick up on some literary devices way quicker, which makes it so much easier to understand. When I was reading this poem all the allusions that are in it stood out to me so much quicker. It didn’t take so long for me to find them and to figure out what they had to do with the poem.