Content AND context.
A dictionary definition for a computer might be:
an electronic device that operates under controls stored in its own memory.
Now, what happens if you took away the part that says it's a definition for a computer, relineated it and said it was a poem called "Love Slave"?
Once something is identified as a poem, we (probably should) automatically assume that there's more going on than is immediately obvious. We recognise the literal meaning but know that there should be something figurative as well.
Unfortunately, many people these days are used to reading single meaning "poems" that have NOTHING else going on.
I was sad
because you left me
now I'm going to
die from loneliness
A dictionary definition for a computer might be:
an electronic device that operates under controls stored in its own memory.
Now, what happens if you took away the part that says it's a definition for a computer, relineated it and said it was a poem called "Love Slave"?
Once something is identified as a poem, we (probably should) automatically assume that there's more going on than is immediately obvious. We recognise the literal meaning but know that there should be something figurative as well.
Unfortunately, many people these days are used to reading single meaning "poems" that have NOTHING else going on.
I was sad
because you left me
now I'm going to
die from loneliness
It could be worse