In other words, the business of poets is to organize, to bring form to bear, on the messiness of reality and, in so doing, to construct not an alternate reality in the sense that it has nothing to do with the real world-- that is to say, it doesn't mention anything in the real world, or it somehow or other invents human beings made out of chocolate or something like that-- instead, it idealizes the elements existing in the real world such that its object is something other than reality as such. 