Based on the analysis of the poem, what is one theme of “Ars Poetica”?

In “Ars Poetica,” the speaker says a poem should be “palpable and mute” like an object, and that it “should not mean / But be.” This suggests a poem should embody or become what it describes rather than simply explain it. So the theme is that a poem should try to be the thing it describes.

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