Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.
Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.
The true poem rests between the words.