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Interesting question. I was wondering the same thing a few days ago...
Proper word associations is very important. Using the wrong word in the middle of a moody poem will completely ruin it. I hate when this happens. That is why I respect poets that appear to have chosen every single word so carefully, seemingly handpicked from some Northern California word tree (?) See? I just ruined my whole post.
But yes, I myself am trying to choose my words more carefully...it isn't that hard. A lot of it does feel like pass/fail when using the wrong words, but if it is fascinatingly done, sometimes a seemingly wrong word can spur a bit of interpretation. This is (super) rare.
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