Hobby?

     My boyfriend, Jacob, went to Western Hills in Frankfork for high school, where he grew very close with his english teacher. They broke down many different forms of literature, annotating it, to show its deeper meaning. This is something that he found very interesting and was very good at. Now every time we hear a song, or a saying, or poem, he can't help but to see it the way his english teacher had tought him to. We will hear a song, that when you are just carelessly listening to it, sounds like a pretty happy song. But he will start saying what he feels the song truely means, and at first sometimes it just sounds crazy and far fetched, until you break it all down.
      At first it was hard for me to just read something, or listen to something and be able to grasp that deeper meaning. We had some free time, so he took the opportunity to show me a poem or two for me to break down. this is the one we found:

                                                  I’m a riddle in nine syllables,

                                                  An elephant, a ponderous house,

                                                  A melon strolling on two tendrils.

                                                  O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!

                                                  This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.

                                                  Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.

                                                  I’m a mean, a stage, a cow in calf.

                                                  I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,

                                                  Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

     At first glance this just looks like a bunch of random and sporadic sentences put together. Elephants, melons, red fruit, big yeasty rolls, money, purses, cows, apples, and trains; where's the connection? I read this maybe 5 times before I realized what it was really about.  The women is pregnant. "A riddle in nine syllables", and there are nine lines in the poem; representing the nine months of pregnancy. "An elephant", she sees herself as fat maybe, or large in comparison to before the pregnancy. "A ponderous house", like her large stomach is the house to her baby. "This loaf's big with its yeasty rising", here she is comparing her child to bread while it's rising- how it can go from to a small ball to a large loaf three times its size in a matter of minutes- showing that her baby his growing very large, and quickly. "Boarded the train there's no getting off", she got pregnant, and there's no changing that, and her life is now going to change. There is an explanation in every line as to how this poem is talking about a pregnancy, it's just a matter of finding the connection.
     This may seem boring, but it was actually very interesting, especially when you do it with songs. Mumford and Sons songs are great for it and you can get so many different stories out of one song.