There is a popular view among literary critics that a poem can never be accurately paraphrased because a poem is itself the only accurate expression of its meaning. But these same critics hold that their own paraphrases of particular poems are accurate. Thus, their view that poetry cannot be accurately paraphrased is false. The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to the criticism that the argument ["provides no justification for favoring one of the literary critics' beliefs over the other", 'presupposes the falsity of the view that it sets out to refute', 'provides no justification for following one particular definition of "paraphrase"', "takes for granted that a paraphrase of a poem cannot be useful to its readers unless it accurately expresses a poem's meaning"]