What does this sentence mean?

Question

The more we stress the congruence of a poem to reality, the more difficult it is to account for the formal design of the poems coherence.

Answer 1

Congruence means to follow a similar direction path of another path. Coherence in this case refers to understanding the poem's meaning and clarity.

Rephrased, the sentence is asking how a poem can be distorted by becoming too real to use imagery or metaphors to communicate ideas.

Basically, the author should write creatively, not report like a society news column.