09-05-2012, 12:05 AM
That question might be the answer. If the writer takes meaning from something that's happened, like a death or a tree cut down, and tries to give it a different meaning. And in that desperate moment when he feels the need to make a poem that's destined for a reader, a part of him might cling to the absurd faith that that future unknown reader can take his meaning, and through some indirect way in this world give a new meaning.