Thoughts on poetry interpretation

Poetry is such a subjective thing, isn’t it? You can find meaning in someone else’s words that another reader will feel no connection to, or they will be hit in the gut by a line that you have no reaction to at all. And that’s a good thing; we all live our lives and experience things in different ways, so it’s only to be expected that things will resonate with or appeal to us all differently.

That isn’t to say we don’t write poetry to connect with other people, because of course we do. Who ha...