"Comin' thro the rye" is a poem which does not tell much to the readers and therefore leaves them to make an understanding of their own. The first time a person tries to interpret a poem he/she thinks for the explanation is a very simple way but as the reader reads the poem multiple times he/she starts to understand the poem's actual meaning and what the author was trying to tell the readers. There are many ways to interpret the poem and reading the poem a number of times has helped me understand it better. My first impression was that the poem was about a girl who loved someone else but other people did not want her to be with him. It seemed like a simple poem with a simple meaning but as I read it again and again I realized that many of the words used were symbols and that there was a lot more to the poem than what I understood. The repetition used, the environment set up for the story, and the anonymity of the person who Jenny is going towards; all of these things tell the reader that the poem is much deeper than what my first impression was.
Jenny is a poor lady, due to the fact that she has suffered a lot, has a sexual relationship with the person she likes. She is going to meet him and in her way are many obstacles. The rye on the poem symbolizes the obstacles in Jenny's path. When she meets the person she is overjoyed and therefore cries when she kisses him. Their relationship is a probably a secret one because she does not want the world to care. She probably has a husband who she does not love and therefore has a relationship with another person and wants to keep it a secret so that she wont be bothered much with it.
