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Hello Emarie I think you were really fired up when you wrote the poem :) Every single line begins with an injunction: "Seek, Discover, Permit" and then the last line, "Show me". I presume this line means that you're asking the critic you mentioned to show his poem. I think it's impossible not to show something (or a whole lot) about oneself in a poem one has written. Here's an excerpt from the benchmark book on TS Elliot by James E. Miller. There was a lot of debate about how much a poet could or couldn't reveal or conceal in his poetry. I think it is a question every poet wrestles with, consciously or unconsciously. "In the last of the comments quoted above, he has perhaps put his feelings in their most complex language. Could it possibly be that Eliot believed he was expressing only his “private experience” in The Waste Land? That the lines of this most famous poem of the twentieth century were for the author “only a means of talking about himself without giving himself away”? Giving himself away? Giving what away? What was there to conceal? Presumably what nobody had, by the 1951 lecture, discovered, or at least discovered and revealed. Could it be that the 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” with its elaborate and tortured “impersonal theory” of poetry, had been a sophistic or sophisticated defense for someone wanting to write poetry “talking about himself without giving himself away”?" T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet by James E. Miller, Jr.