My wife -- who has taught poetry at the college level as well as writing a whole lot of popular novels -- reminds me from time to time of the "intentional falla

My wife -- who has taught poetry at the college level as well as writing a whole lot of popular novels -- reminds me from time to time of the "intentional fallacy". What she means by that -- I think :) -- is that the author isn't the sole determinant of a work's meaning. So (while she's unavailable to be asked at the moment) I'm pretty sure she'd agree that the poem is about both the things it's often claimed to be about. Indeed, some of the works she and I both admire the most are ones that work on several levels at once.