Nina wrote this and I’ll respond to her out here. Nina’s responses will be in blue italics and mine will have a bullet point before them.

I was laughing mad because I keep refreshing your page in order to see any post of you and YUP. Like everyday you make new post: thumbs up! I think “a poem a day” has been one drama that can make people go crazy about. Feels like the days of Another Miss Oh but A Poem A Day needs a good sharp eye and analyze to understand what the writer and PD-nim trying to say.

• We’re obsessed because the writer and director have put in so many details that turn out to be important in the succeeding episodes.  They’re following the principle of “Chekhov’s gun.”  Anton Chekhov is a famous Russian playwright and short story writer who said that  “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.” And this romcom’s writer and director follow this concept.
• For instance in the earlier episodes (was it 2 or 3? I’ll check later), NamWon pointed out a bug on BoYoung’s white crocs. First, didn’t you see how funny that was? NamWon’s shirt is a Lacoste. It’s also called “The Crocodile.”  Now, do you know the brand name of BoYoung’s white shoes? They’re the Crocs, because they look like the snout of a crocodile. Old Crocs meet New Crocs.  
• Not only that. She was hopping all around because she hated bugs. The sticker on her shoe looked like a cricket. lol. Then a few episodes later, we have this Episode called “The Cricket and I.” I like the details because they tell me that the writer and director have given their finished product much thought GOING IN. Before they started filming, they already know where they want to go, and they aren’t half-assing their job.
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It made me think while I watched few episodes earlier on why the title called You Who Forgot Poetry, and before you write all the nice explanations of Minho being the forgot one, I actually thought it would be cracked if Minho is the one who forgot. Because I read from many sites that the actor who portray Dr.Ye is the main lead and I do agree based on the experience he might be the lead. Although I can’t seem to follow it if we start from ep. 1 and how Minho being the one who got more air time and stories with Bo Young.

Anw I love reading all your posts esp Cricket and I. I was laughing how the writer depict Minho as a cricket. He surely love to talk btw.

• Yes, doesn’t he? He chirps all day long in Episode 7 bugging her that Dr. Ye will just reject her. Of course, when he puts it that way and when he goads her to prove him wrong, BoYoung will be challenged to prove him wrong.
• Sure, Dr. Kim started her fascination for Dr. Ye, but MinHo stirred it up because of his constant teasing.

As much as I am Minho central and love it to bits of Minho – Bo Young interaction, I am not quite sure about their development in next episodes. I am prepared if that happened, if the writer chose to make them in just friend zone.

• Same here. It’ll be fun to watch their interaction. Right now, BoYoung is on a rebound. 
• Of course, she’s rebounding after MinHo rejected her. She’s mad that she’s given him a chance to come clean but he continues to deny liking her. To me, this appears to be her “point of no return” in Episode 8. Or the final straw.
• She asks MinHo to explain himself and he gives his usual “altruistic” response.  “That was because I know you’re going to get hurt by his rejection. Dr. Ye is only being nice to you as a colleague, not as a man. I said that in your best interest.”
• To me, if she does NOT like him anymore, then it should NOT matter to her one bit that he says these things to her. She keeps on asking HIS motives because she wants him to admit that HE LIKES HER. She’s cornering him with her “proofs” he likes her.  She asked, “Why did you tell me not to like Dr Ye? … Why you called me a repeat offender and an ex-convict after I begged you not to say those things? … Why did you hug me then?”
• Then, because he doesn’t want to admit it, she tells HIM to bug off. “Okay. What a relief. I know how you feel now, so stay out of my love life. I’ll deal with any rejection or pain that comes my way.” See that? If she really liked Dr. Ye, she didn’t need to consider how MinHo felt. Why should MinHo’s emotions come into play? Her liking Dr. Ye should be a separate issue from MinHo liking her. lol.
• This sounds like a rebound to me. She’s DETERMINED to immerse herself in a new love whatever the consequences of that affair will be. She’s given him a chance to declare himself but he’s copped out.

I think it’s just make sense how their interaction is, though many people hate Minho but he is a manchild so I think I understand. I don’t know about you but it happens that my fiance sometimes acting like a child. And somehow we worked. My saying is that I think Dr.Ye – Bo Young interaction may not relatable and somehow superficial.

• This is like Reply 1988 all over again. Shippers were saying that the heroine couldn’t have a relationship with a “manchild” because Taec/Park Bogum was a “manchild.”  Pfffttt. Those shippers should stop having a romantic relationships with TV character. Last week, my husband got a splinter on his thumb, and it was I who took it out and put Neosporin on the scratch and bandaged it. Say, what manchild again?

About Bo Young feelings, I agree that she is infatuated with Dr. Ye. I once has the same foolish feeling in one of doctor where I work. I was so foolish, like Bo Young the interaction is so minimum yet I could say I’m like falling to that person. So I hope really hope the writer wouldn’t take a further step in their relationship.

• And that’s how BoYoung is feeling. She feels foolish whenever she catches herself eating that fluffy cotton candy. She knows she’s fixating on cotton candy.
• SYMBOLISM: cotton candy =  a ball of spun sugar. It’s just air.
• And that’s the point the writer and director are trying to make there – that the whole idea of her actually LOVING Dr. Ye is comical. It’s just a cloud of sweet nothings.  
• Compare it with the midnight buffet with MinHo. Just think: the writer and director built that whole scene up: the poem, the background story, the flashbacks, the whole episode. They put in so much thought and effort to create that whole episode just for that climactic birthday scene. And they didn’t make fun of it and pretend that it was a comical fantasy for MinHo and BoYoung, like BoYoung fantasizing eating cotton candy with cotton, tissue and duster feather.
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Let’s all of us wait and see this week episodes. Finger crossed PDnim and the writer will eventually let the Minho – Bo Young relationship blossom.

• It’s springtime, of course.