Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that poetry should communicate.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.