Due to its nature of emphasising linguistic form rather than using language completely for its content, poetry is notoriously hard to translate from one language into another: a possible exception to this may be the Hebrew Psalms, where the beauty is found more in the balance of ideas than in specific vocabulary. In most poetry, it is the connotations and the "baggage" that words carry (the weight of words) that are most vital. These shades and nuances of meaning may appear not so easy to interpret and may cause various readers to "hear" a particular piece of a poetry work differently. While there are reasonable interpretations, there can never be a definitive
