A poem is like a mysterious lock forged by its writer. Yet it can be unlocked by many if sincere interpretations are provided as keys by the readers of the poem.  Therefore, I believe it is the readers that grant a poem power more than its poet. Poems sometimes are not meant by their writers to be published or shared, but they are often filled with the poets’ feelings at a time. Interpretations, then, can be much more powerful for a reader and its entire audience to comprehend  deeper understandings. For example in Emily Dickinson’s poem 764, the very first line says, “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun “. Knowing that Miss Dickinson spent most of her life within walls of her ancestral house and her poems unpublished in her lifetime, she must often have felt the eagerness to explore the world outside her perimeters when she wrote so many about journeys and adventures. She might have only put down her sentiments at that time, but to us, as readers, our understandings of her poems gives more possibilities to interpret her work.