A poem is as hard to like as a person
says Emily Gould. Oh Emily,
how true! Sometimes the person,
sometimes the poem is harder.
What makes the frog suppose
you will appreciate him any better
on the hundredth hearing? And yet
he persists, with his three-note wonder.
But the poem you dislike
will not pursue you, which point
is in poetry’s favour; and by the one you do
you will be happily pursued.