Poetry

Don Paterson

In the very start of the poem we can see how the speaker compares a diamond keeping a "spark of the planet's early fires" to a bit of love stored in a poem, and then continues to describe how it expands from that point.
We can assume that the speaker of the poem is the narrator telling us the story, and is not incorporated into it directly. As the poem progresses we can see how a little atom of love can flare because of poetry. Making poetry the holder of the same sort of spark of the planet in the diamond, Based on the poem, the poets voice can sound different, it can be commanding, or can be drowned out by other things, but it is meaningful none the less. The speaker says that all poets will sound similar in the end, Anonymous but serene.
The elements and points stated above show how the meaning of the poem was set. The basic meaning is that a poem holds a little bit of love, and uses that to create itself and speak out. In the end, all poems make a difference, but the poets themselves only write them, and nothing more.