"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic"

Harold Bloom is recommending that any stance a critic, scholar, or teacher takes towards a poem is itself a poetic stance. He thinks this is the main cause of his increasing demonstration of this concept. He is suggesting that any analysis of a poem is itself a poetic act, as it is an interpretation of the poem's meaning. Flower is recommending that the act of interpreting a poem is itself a creative act, as it involves the critic, scholar, or teacher's own interpretation of the poem. He is stressing the value of the critic, scholar, or teacher's own analysis of the poem, as it is a creative act in itself. Bloom is suggesting that the act of interpreting a poem is a poetic act, as it involves the critic, scholar, or instructor's own analysis of the poem. He is emphasizing the value of the critic, scholar, or instructor's own interpretation of the poem, as it is an imaginative act in itself.