sentences:  By giving his actions form through poetry, the Speaker has joined up with the other failed suitors in paying rent for which he gets no return.Ronald Levao agrees with Thomas M. Greene's understanding that the Speaker replaces "superficial pomp, external loyalty, and possibly the "art" of poetry itself" with "pure simplicity and single-minded, quasi-religious devotion" in order to receive "mutual render".He does disagree with Greene's summation of the informer from line 13.