In modern art we have artists statements hung on the walls of the museums.
In design we have creative briefs.

This is not true for poetry and music.
For poetry and music we simply have the language and the words.
Left for us to interpret.

Lately our focus in English class has been on poetry, both modern and from the past. We have be analyzing the poems for tone, metaphors, allusions, situation, symbols, among other aspects. During a discussion we started talking about how the reader never know what the poet intentions truly were with the poem. They do not write about the poem, the just write the poem. This got me thinking.

In poetry and music we get to find the meanings. You can either go looking for certain aspects and symbols or you can accept it simply for the way it sounds. You are not told what it is about or what you should think.

For some people this will turn them off from poetry and music.
For me I think it makes sense having an unspoken meaning.