News at Eleven: Reading the entries in advance,

I had become concerned that one poem was a hospital employee's admission to manslaughter: the verse described someone mistyping a line of code and condemning a patient to death. My reading of the piece was that the wrong drugs had been ordered. A medical participant, though, was able to explain that the poem was written in the voice of God, who, by entering a single mistake in a chain of DNA creates a fatal inherited condition.

To what extent does it matter if a poem is fully understood? If a metaphor fails to convince a member of the discipline from which it was borrowed, then is the line a failure?

from The Guardian: Case histories--review

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