Title: Looking at the title of this poem, you can have many ideas about what the poem will be about. One of the ideas I had when I read the title was that it would be about a white doe being hunted by a hunter. Another thing I thought was that a white deer is an angel from heaven who will save someone. The last idea that came to me was that it was a white deer camouflaging itself in the snow to escape a predator. Paraphrase: In the first stanza, the speaker primarily describes the doe and her surroundings. The speaker says the doe is all white with golden horns. The speaker says that the doe stands in the shade between two streams in a green opening in a forest. In the second stanza, the speaker tells how he quit his job to follow the doe because she was so beautiful. The doe must have run away into the woods because he compares his search to the doe with a miser looking for his treasure. He also seems happy as he searches for the doe. In the third stanza he finds the doe again. The way I interpreted this verse was that the doe was wearing a collar with a diamond on it. I came to this conclusion because the first two lines of the verse say, "Around her lovely neck 'Do not touch me'/It was written with topaz and diamond stone[.]" It seems that the doe was once possessed by someone because the verse continues the inscription on what I believe is the collar: "'My Caesar's will was to set me free.'" I think it is some kind of ghost deer that was once owned by Julius Caesar. The last verse basically says he chased the deer until noon. He says he was so tired he could barely see and fell into the stream. When the doe came down it was no longer there... in the center of the sheet... Title: The title is the subject of the poem. It is not a very specific title so the reader can make many inferences about what the poem will be about. The title simply says "The White Doe". It doesn't say "The white doe that was spotted by a man working in the woods and decides to follow her but falls into a stream." So until the reader actually reads the poem, they won't really know what the poem will be about. The title contributes to the overall effect of the poem because the white doe is the subject of the poem within the poem. Theme: What the poet is trying to tell the world is that just because someone throws something in the opposite direction doesn't mean one can catch it. from the garbage and keep it as his own. If the person who threw away the item wanted someone else to have it, they would put it up for sale or give it away.