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 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.

1,083 340 Linus added The Road Not Taken Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” is a poem by Robert Frost,published in 1916 as the first poem in the

700 243 Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening Robert Frost

What is a good poem to memorize?

“Jamesian,” Thom Gunn.

“You Fit Into Me,” Margaret Atwood.

“Unfortunate Coincidence,” Dorothy Parker.

“First Fig,” Edna St.

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“We know this much,” Sappho (translated by Mary Barnard) In contrast to Sappho,this one offers a more positive spin on death: at the end,what else is there really

“Tourists,” D.H.

“Devotion,” Robert Frost.