How Poems Arrive

This poem describes the different ways poems are made and look. It explains the process of creating a poem and bringing it into existence. It says “then let them knock about your upper mind Until the shape of what they mean appears” This line creates a visual of when we think about what to write in a poem and then they have a unique structure once it’s on the paper. “Of intimacy or blame or joy or pain” explains that there are different types of poems people write to express their feelings. I think the author is in a way showing off how a poem is created.