So after reading the title of this poem, I know what you must be thinking, "Who in their right mind would like to read confusing poems over simple ones that just tell you all the answers." And the answer is simple, because with an obscure poem you can't be wrong.
I mean, you'd have to do a crazy bad job to get the interpretation of an obscure poem completely wrong. For the most part you can say pretty much anything. This might just seem like an easy cop out for essays and Socratic Seminars, but I actually think it's a really unique way that poets can make their poems more important than they actually are.
Say you write a dumb poem about like pizza or something, but you make it obscure; add the right amount of big words and descriptions, mixed with a dash of existentialism, and boom you have a poem someone can connect to death or life or anything in between.
In this fashion, poems live on to be the ones that show up in AP exams. Because when things are obscure enough, anyone can resonate with them, even if it doesn't entirely fit the poets initial reason behind writing the poem.
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