Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.Which statement best explains the central idea of this stanza?

The speaker compares forcing a poem to confess to tying it to a chair and torturing it. This suggests that some readers try too aggressively to make a poem reveal one definite meaning instead of exploring it openly. Choice C, “People try too hard to find one meaning for each poem,” best captures the stanza’s central idea.

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