What does cookie-cut mean here? What is he trying to say?
I think you can either look for forms, you can do specific reading for them, or the forms can be demanded by what you want to say. And when the material in poetry seems under almost unbearable pressure you wonder whether the form hasn’t cookie-cut what the poet wanted to say. But you chose the couplet, didn’t you, and some of your freest passages are in couplets.
A cookie cutter imposes a specific form on the nebulas mass of dough.
A poet has innumerable ways of conveying their message. However, there are common forms that are familiar and one might fit their message to a convenient, recognizable form. However, this poet chose to use couplets. Couplets allow more freedom of expression; allow her/him to avoid "falling into" the use of overused, trite, or common forms of expressing a given idea or message.
