Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.