This excerpt best expresses the central idea that poetry can all topics

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Explanation:

This entire passage explains how "poetry turns all things to loveliness". The speaker describes how poetry can make everything seem bigger and better than it actually is. It compares poetry to "alchemy" as though it's magic that transforms its subject.

                Read the excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry."

There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other connexion than time, place, circumstance, cause and effect; the other is the creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature, as existing in the mind of the Creator, which is itself the image of all other minds. The one is partial, and applies only to a definite period of time, and a certain combination of events which can never again recur; the other is universal, and contains within itself the germ of a relation to whatever motives or actions have place in the possible varieties of human nature.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can