Will give brainliest
why does the poet compare a poem to the moon

a poem should be palpable and mute
as a globed fruit

dumb
as old medallions to the thumb

silent as the sleeve-worn stone
of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

a poem should be wordless
as the flight of birds

a poem should be motionless in time
as the moon climbs

leaving, as the moon releases
twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
memory by memory the mind -

a poem should be motionless in time
as the moon climbs

a poem should be equal to:
not true

for all the history of grief
an empty doorway and a maple leaf

for love
the leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -

a poem should not mean
but be