How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically? Our meddling intellect

Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:

We murder to dissect.

Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?

The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure’— explain.

Explain the contradiction in the similies, ‘Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb’.

Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are ... the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.