However, it is a little more complicated to conclude that ideas must always be meaningful. In answering this question, then, we must be aware that we are talking about only a subclass of poems that define and explain, and within that subclass we can only say that poems strive to achieve this goal. Despite our heuristic desire to assign absolute meaning, it is accepted that this is entirely a personal value judgment about which ideas are significant: Frame's ideas are commonly believed to be significant if not extraordinarily original, but this essay does not argue that have some meaning. form of objective value more than any other poem. Nonetheless, these ideas, in the poems discussed here – the human response to pain, death as a positive outcome, and the relationship between humanity and nature – are perhaps universally accepted as significant ideas, due to their all-pervasive nature. Frame conveys these ideas with the use of his distinctive voice, and indeed thanks to this characteristic in his poetry he is a superb example of the inherent symbolic nature of poetry - he constantly uses metaphor, for example when he talks about the "grey pleated walls" of the chrysalises, to invoke ideas of inner value and cultivation. His ideas are always at the heart of his poems, for example in “Yet Another Poem About a Dying Child” where he constantly pushes the idea that the child would rather die – “He