Because poetry is not philiosophy, just as it is not religion. BAD poetry is often one or both of these things.
Pope aimed at rhymed philosophy. He achieved splendid rhyme but fell down rather on the philosophy.
We are second-rate sensitive minds, as Tennyson remarked. But then we do not expect Don Bradman (a cricketer) to be a first-rate mind either.
I had thought whock was a past tense of whack in American usage.
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