reader who is averse to playing with inversions of large and small, exterior and intimacy, may also say: “It’s a poem and that’s all.” “And nothing more.”17 In reality, however, the poet has given concrete form to a very general psychological theme, namely, that there will always be more things in a closed, than in an open, box. To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
