On Poetry’s Interpretation

{...}Poetry involves a lot of nuance, and it involves a lot of attention to meaning. A good poem has multiplicity of meanings, that converge in many forms of communication. But, generally, poetry is an expression of the deepest thought.

There’s several layers of Poetic nuance.

Historical: What the Poem means at its Time Period.

Allegorical: What the Poem means by Metaphorical and Literary Language.

Logocentric: What the Poem means as a Universal Expression of Truth.

And finally:

Typological: What the Poem means in its context and application to Psychological and Sociological truth.

And of course those things overlap. But I’d say being able to both communicate and understand a poem in those layers of meaning, are what makes a good reader, writer and listener.