Poetry has many meanings to them making it sometimes difficult to figure all of them out. However, some common ones that are a major push for the author to create that certain poem you read is hope.  Hope, is something that you can be really passionate about and something that many people can relate to. That's a reason why it's used in many poets writing. Someone who embodies this as an author is Naomi Shihab Nye, to be more specific the poem My Father and The Fig Tree. Where a father is on a quest to find the sweetest and ripest fig. It's the hope that he has moving from home to home in his life in search for this fig that's been eluding him.

In the poem My Father and The Fig Tree there are a lot of connections and patterns throughout the poem. Specifically when the author describes hope in the form of a fig. Which symbolizes the hope the father has in finding the perfect fig. Within this poem there is repetition as well and is important to the theme of hope the author was trying to portray. An example of this is when the author says " about picking the largest, fattest, sweetest fig" it's used in the beginning of the poem to show the hope he had. And its busted at the end to show his dreams came to fruition.

The reasoning to why authors chose hope to write about is because everyone has dreams and goals for themselves. And because of that it makes it easy for people to connect with poems. This is something that Naomi Shihab Nye does a great job with in her writings. This is why poetry is known for connecting with people because the themes they have are so much more than what we think. And it's the meanings they have to every person is why people ignore the fact that poetry is confusing.