What I get from this piece is that you can't paraphrase poems because by their design. In the book I get the since that the author is saying that paraphrasing a poem takes away from the beauty of the poem itself by fondling with the pattern. Mr. Brooks also inquires that poems cannot be judged by the philosophies that were judging the poem on an overall meaning. Basically stating that a poem cannot be translated but more so it is the statement of the writer, it is what the writer is saying. No art form can fully be interpreted and be critiqued and then distributed and packaged as ok this is the central theme of this writing. As a writer myself when I write, sometimes i can have multiple meanings in a writing but they all draw back to the overall central theme which is blend between reality and imagination. So if you ever tried to decipher my writings as just one blunt paraphrase then you would have a big headache on your hands because it's so much meaning in paper that you will never begin to understand if you use this technique as your only instrument to better understand a text. This is what I got from "The Heresy of Paraphrase:
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