Andrey's questions about poems (split from the intro thread)

[AndreyGaganov]

The way I understand it, metaphor enables poetry to speak succinctly and with complexity about things that are hard to define in prose.

I'm sold on the 'succinct' part, but what does the presence of complexity promise as a reward? Got an example?  

If you explicate a poem in prose, it loses its richness.

How do you understand 'richness'?

Metaphor enables a poem to have multiple meanings simultaneously.

... as long as that's what the poet wants, right?