Experience of Close Reading

When I was close reading the poem "Spring and Fall" I found it quite difficult. It was hard to tell what each line was trying to say and what it meant. I haven't really looked over poems much, so this task was challenging. When I came up with my own way of saying what I thought each line of the poem made I kept over thinking and wasn't actually sure if I was correct. I came up with multiple meanings and when comparing my answers to others it was very different. I realized there could be many different interpretations of this poem and that we wouldn't really know for sure what it meant without asking the author.