However, it is a little more complicated to conclude that ideas must always be meaningful. In answering this question, therefore, we must remain aware that we are talking only about a subclass of poems that define and explain, and within that subclass we can only say that poems strive to achieve this goal. Despite our heuristic desire to ascribe absolute significance, it is accepted that it is an entirely personal value judgment as to which ideas are significant – it is commonly accepted that Frame's ideas are significant, even remarkably original , but this essay does not claim that they have a certain meaning. form of objective value, no more than any other poem. Despite this, these ideas in the poems discussed here – the human response to grief, death as a positive outcome, and the relationship between humanity and nature – are perhaps universally recognized as significant ideas, because of their omnipresent nature. Frame conveys these ideas using her characteristic voice and, indeed, through this characteristic of her poetry, she is a superb example of the symbolic nature inherent in poetry – she constantly uses metaphor, for example when she speaks of " pleated gray walls” of chrysalids, to invoke ideas of inner value and culture. Her ideas are always entirely central to her poems, for example in “Yet Another Poem About a Dying Child” where she is constantly motivated by the idea that the child would rather die – “He