Tuesday Morning Cantos Assignment Forum

I think this means that you can take a poem apart and scour its technical elements, but the poem itself is much more than its technical elements. There are feelings and emotions involved that make the poem what it is.

To me, the end of this quote means that feelings and emotions that are invoked by a piece can be as original as each person. Poetry should be left open-ended so that each reader can fill in the gaps and spaces with references to their own lives and to themselves. This makes a poem carry an individual significance for each person, and makes it more compelling.