Vicente Huidobro

As I was reading Huidobro's poem "Ars Poetica", I liked how pretty much the poet was tryng to state that poetry is not just words that are combined together to make a sentence, but rather it is "like a key opening a thousand doors". I feel that poetry sometimes may not be the most interesting piece of writing to read, but it does have deep meaning to it. In the third and fourth line of this poem, the poet states "A leaf falls; something flies by;let all the eye sees be created". In other words, I feel that in these two lines, Huidobro is trying to say that even by using these simple words and combining them together, "the soul of the listener can tremble". Although poetry can contain simple sentence structures, the poet is also saying that word diction matters a lot when writing a poem. He states in the first stanza that some words can either kill or give the poem a meaning. I do not feel like Huidobro is trying to say that word diction should dominate your thoughts when writing a poem, but rather by using the correct words/adjectives, give the poem the meaning you want it to have. In my opinion, I think Huidobro is trying to convey the idea that poetry should be written in a natural manner, and not over thought.