What is the best poem of all time?
1,050 211 Papaof3 added The Raven Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
What makes a good poem?
1) You’ve tackled a big idea. Your poem grapples with an idea that is difficult, intriguing, exciting, disturbing, meaningful, compelling—you get the drift. 2) You’re using the best form to convey your ideas. Poets have lots of options available to them: They can rhyme or not rhyme. 3) You’re making perfect word choices. A good poem demonstrates excellent command of diction and syntax. Half measures won’t do. Imprecision won’t do. 4) You’re using powerful images. A good poem is a symptom of the author’s effort to make sense of the world. 5) You’ve cut out everything unessential. Is every single word, comma, and punctuation mark absolutely necessary to your poem—and not one single space wasted? 6) You are giving away neither too little nor too much. 7) Your reader has a strong emotional reaction. After you read a poem aloud at an open mike night or share with a group of writers, you get a strong 8) Your reader has a strong intellectual reaction. Some poems aren’t necessarily meant to elicit a strong and immediate emotional reaction.
What makes great poetry?
A great poem is a poem with substance, but a poem with substance is not a wordy poem, it is a poem that alludes to something behind, a poem with depth. A great poet is the one who accepts his limits, the limits of his language, and lets his poem take a life of its own, acquiring meaning he didn’t intend for it to.
What are some of the best poems about life?
The best poems about life Cindy Williams Gutiérrez “The Small Claim of Bones” Jane Hirshfield “My Life Was the Size of My Life” Kaveh Akbar “Against Dying” Camille T. Dungy “Daisy Cutter” Octavio Paz “The Street”. It’s a long and silent street. Warsan Shire “Ugly” Suji Kwock Kim “Monologue for an Onion” Nikki Giovanni “Legacies” W.S. Merwin “Separation”. Edna St.