The woke ideology is attractive to those who are not verbally intelligent and have a more feminine temperament. It extends compassion beyond its relevant domain and creates a world divided into victims and victimizers, where victims are always innocent and victimizers are predators. This undermines the presumption of individual innocence and leads to the imposition of a totalitarian state. The dense imagery of poetry is used to pack in more information and create levels of meaning, making it almost inexhaustible in its depth and impact.