The speaker (a poet, you won’t be surprised to hear) says poems are good places to find metaphors, and that when you read a poem about a cricket singing from a branch in the middle of a river, you will recognize that that image says something larger about our human lives and how we live them. That might seem a lot to put into a cricket. Do you think that a description of a cricket would be read the same way or mean the same thing if it had been in a science paper about crickets instead of a poem? Do we read things in different ways at different times, and can you say why a person might want to read a poem (or listen to the words of a song) at all?