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Summary
The author concludes that the meaning of a poem is different from what the author intends to communicate with the poem.
Why?
Because sometimes people read a great poem and think that it expresses contradictory ideas.
However, people who write great poems don’t intend to communicate contradictory ideas.
Notable Assumptions
Notice that the conclusion brings up the concept of “meaning of a poem,” but the premises do not. This shows that the author must be assuming something about “meaning of a poem.”
To go further, the author believes that what readers of a poem think a poem expresses is part of the meaning of a poem. This is why the author thinks that the meaning of a poem is different from what’s intended — writers don’t intend contradiction, but people can believe a poem expresses contradiction (i.e. the meaning of a poem involves a contradiction).
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