If you thought of poems as records of states of mind, accurate as no other kind of record, then thinking of them be good or bad would be beside the point. You would strive for an accurate rendering, nothing less or more than that. You could revise not to take out a bad line, but to correct a detail.
Accuracy implies the real, but this is a genre of fiction, after all. You can't define what that real thing is, not a set of facts, but almost the equivalent of that.
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