Yes, Q, and it is especially true in this specific poem, don't you think?

I can only say what I think it means - for me. But one important issue in this poem is that everyone experiences something different even when they are standing right next to each other looking at the same thing. For me the poem itself can be substituted for the orange tree. Different people experience it in different ways.

I think - from my experience of life, and my way of relating to life - that JNS was a very spiritual person who had what I call the Celtic way of relating to nature as being the essence of the Creator/God on earth, so experiencing the orange tree like the girl is doing in the poem is also experiencing the Creator/God's presence. And if you can experience that it is very very difficult to explain it to someone who doesn't experience it. It's like trying to converse in 2 totally different languages when you only speak/understand your own. There is an impenetrable barrier to communication.

But that's just my thoughts/feelings on the poem.

Helen