A dramatization of the subjective aspects of the poet's emotions is only one element of how affect works in poetry. Poems are not simply a sequence of words expressing emotional information about the poet. Poems function in a system when they are activated, when they are read or listened to by someone else. There is an affectual circuit in poetry. There are three elements of poetic affect that need to be considered: the poet's affect, the poem's affect and the reader's affect. Affect in the activated poem exists in the relation between these things.