Poems?

So the reason my title is called poems? is because I dont understand poems very well. As I read in just- it brought me back to my good ol childhood. I remember playing in the mud puddles and jumping rope. I did however feel like the poem had negative connotations, for example at the end when it talks about the goat-footed man. To me it sounds like the devil trying to take the children away from their innocence. Nothing scares me more than the devil and just reading that poem kinda gave me bad feelings. The devil tempts people into doing wrong every single day and I know as a child it was so easy getting talked into things even though you know its wrong. In the story though I feel like they made the devil out to be a good person handing out fun balloons to the children, or maybe the balloons were a metaphor for sin....gosh see, I just dont know how to read poems. I guess it does bring out your imagination though. Now I found Emily Dickenson's poem a little more enjoyable. What I got out of it was that death found someone and they pasted by their lives going towards their new lives in eternity. Even though death isn't such a cherished word, eternity is. Well to me it is. I feel like death is just a word that leads to eternity. Im not scared to die because I believe that I am going to live a much, much better life for all eternity. This poem just gave me a good feeling even though its about death. I know I'm not great at reading poems but this is just what I got from these poems, you can take it or leave it.