“You (the poet) don’t think about the reader at all during the process of writing a poem (sorry). On the other hand, the poet is just as human as you, the reader, and the completed poem can affect others even if it wasn’t specifically meant to have that effect. As to which poem will impress which reader, well, that’s dependant upon their level of sensibility, their worldview, etc. When the poem is sufficiently complex, readers with various levels of sensibility and erudition will find something that appeals to them just as the same reader will read a poem differently at various ages.” (Rakovszky Zsuzsa)