This poem is talking about constantly having something you are trying to overcome; you will never finish because in your mind, there is always something to be done, always something you want that you cannot have. I read the poem and understood that it is saying whatever you do, personally you will find a way not to get to it, a way not to overcome it. As much as we think we passed, we have finished, there will always be something to do and try to accomplish. It’s saying that the heart will only overcome what it thinks it can handle. The title Pass/Fail, connects to the whole poem because it can be either be a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ for achieving something a person’s heart wants. The poem did a good job in giving examples of the authors idea of something getting in the way of passing or failing, like “when you reach for a book - it closes its door in your face; when you conjugate a verb - it is in the wrong language.” When I read this quote, I thought about how a person thinks they are on track to do something, then something simultaneously happens so that you cannot succeed to pass. You might be on your way to do something, and something little will stop you, unexpectedly and this is true to life as a whole. What I think the poem fails to say is that even though you do not ‘pass’ per say, trying then failing is not the same thing as just straight out failing with no effort.
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