I agree with Carol. It’s more than meaning — you hope to work an effect — but meaning is surely part of it.
If you really think the author’s intentions are irrelevant, why would you post work on these boards for feedback? If it isn’t to find out how far you’re succeeding in your intentions, why do it?
And why would you comment on the poems of others, in terms of this or that “coming across” or whether the semicolons are in the right places, if communication of what’s in the author’s mind is so off the point?
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