In most poetry, it is the connotations and the baggage that words carry (the weight of words) that are most important. These shades and nuances of meaning can be difficult to interpret and can cause different readers to hear a particular piece of poetry differently.
Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others. It is a construct of multiple components, each of which is associated with its own brain network. There are three ways of looking at empathy. First there is affective empathy. This is the ability to share the emotions of others.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the consciousness of another, the process of empathy is driven from compassion, a feeling for another that leads to a feeling as another for rightful understanding of the other person.