ART & AESTHETICS :Art is a way of carrying an idea inside the Artist to an altered level of perception for the reader or viewer or the listener. A poet uses words(like a painter-artist uses color) to transform the fixed connotation of a word to another reflective meaning to make it a carrier of different meaning. For example, the `desert-sun` in a poem may mean an adverse social condition and lead the reader to another level of perception of existing social condition.
According to Sri Aurobindo(Future Of Poetry) the quality of a poem depends not only on the skill of the poet but also on the level of his mental-psychic condition at the time of his writings (vital, mental, psychic or higher expanded consciousness).

To me,if a writing or a poem does not change my existing poise of mind and take me to a higher, altered level of consciousness, I feel that my time was wasted .