An interpretation should make the words intelligible, not replace them with an unrelated imagined event. Recasting an imperfect verb as a past action or moving the referent of a pronoun requires a defensible contextual cue.
Three levels must be considered: lexical indication, figurative attribution and chronological relation. Neglecting one of them can distort an otherwise attractive poetic explanation.
The aim is a reading that respects the text's linguistic constraints while retaining the effectiveness of its literary fiction.