John Ciardi's advise in ';How Does a Poem Mean?';?

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Ciardi's main idea is that what poetry says is secondary to the way it says it. Poetry consists not in fancy or great ideas, universal themes and so on, but in the various clever, subtle, many-sided rhetorical and verbal devices from which the poem is created. The adept reader of poetry will focus on style, which is the substance of poetry.