But when I touch a piece of electric wire made in China, I shall get an electric shock, irrespective of my beliefs and familiarity with Chinese electric industry. When I was a child, people who were only six seven years older than I was, were laughing at Bartok's music. They were not familiar with his musical code, and his music sounded to them as an incoherent jumble of noises. One clear prerequisite of efficient communication about poetry, or paintings, or music, or stock market prices is that we do not change the meaning of words in the same exchange of ideas, wihout notifying our partners. The history of misunderstandings in literary criticism, philosophy, politics, and many other domains is riddled by instances in which this simple rule is disregarded.
Poetry works differently.
He does not take the trouble to notify us that he makes such inconsiderate things. Shakespeare seems to be no better than Milton. Donne is more merciful. This is the essence of Metaphysical Wit. Since I gave you such a long, learned and pedantic answer, let me make one more pedantic comment.