Mark Doty explains that “perception is simultaneous and layered, and to single out any aspect of it for naming is to turn your attention away from myriad other things, those braiding elements of the sensorium-that continuous, complex response to things perpetually delivered by the senses, the encompassing sphere that is such a large part of our subjectivity” (3).  He is stating that we need to examine the obvious but it is also important to look beyond what is right in front of us in order to discover the layers of the poem or the dual meanings that are existing at the same time.  Analyzing imagery is an effective way to try and uncover the meaning of a poem but Doty’s methods also acknowledge the common dilemma of false and/or varying interpretations because he states that “…all perception is limited, no matter how acute your eyesight, how sharp the hearing, how sensitive the sense of touch.  What we can take in is a partial rendering of the world” (4).  Doty makes it clear that our perceptions have limitations and we must be aware of this when we evaluate the world around us and when we try to put our experiences in words.  Our senses are limited but our ability to put into words what we experience is even more limited.  Therefore, the meaning of the poem can become lost between when the poet cannot express in words and what the reader cannot perceive through their senses.  This space where meaning is lost can be recovered through close analysis but in the end our critique is really “a guessing game” (5).  According to Doty, “poetry concretizes the singular, unrepeatable moment; it hammers out of speech a form for how it feels to be oneself” (20).  He expounds that poets can “create a space of indeterminacy, a kind of field–circumscribed by their precise sketch of their subject—in which meaning isn’t closed or completed, but remains instead generative” (47).  The reader’s part in the creation of the poem is to piece together the descriptions and unearth or give birth to the meaning from within through reasoning.  The poet must feed the reader the nourishment or the details in order for the birth to take place.  Prior to piecing together what the poet describes, all the reader has to work with is the title of the poem.  In order to make this determine the meaning of the poem, the reader must carefully examine the images described in the poem.