It is only when the image is consciously interpreted that its poetic effect is destroyed. A folktale can be interpreted, but any single interpretation will impoverish it and will miss what is essential. That is its soul. I wouldn't talk in my sleep if I couldn't talk better than that. The actor's manner of speaking has to be free from parsonical sing-song and from all those cadences which lull the spectator so the sense gets lost.
People talk for hours without uttering a single topic sentence.
Yet we generally understand speech perfectly and instantaneously. We don't have to keep going over the same sentence three times to figure out what the person is trying to say. People communicate with their bodies much more effectively than they do on paper. Friends of the critic Desmond MacCarthy, who was a member of the Bloomsbury circle, thought that he was a fantastic talker, and that his genius was never reflected adequately in his writing. One day, some of them invited MacCarthy over and hired a stenographer to hide outside the room and record his conversation.