2006-10-12 02:45:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think it's an indescribable something that makes it universal in that people understand it on a level beyond reasoning....something deeper and more primal
2006-10-12 02:50:38 · answer #1 · answered by tecvba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell a great poem or poet by the goosebumps and my desire to stalk them after reading their stuff... If they tickle me from head to toe, make me violently angry, fall deep in the much of love, disgust me, or totally freak me out... start a riot! THAT... makes a great poet and that poet makes a great poem. A Libertine, a rogue, a dashing attenuated beautiful soul-drawn piece of art. I love them one and all! To me, they are my ROCK STAR, My Childhood crush, my first lover and everything good this rotton world has to offer!
I judge a good poem, by my desire or need to actually read it more than just once. If it survives my very short attention span... it has to be good, or interesting in the least.
I judge a bad poem or poet. By the persons or the poems inability to incite or excite anything within me at all. Over rhymed just because they assumed it should be, stuffed into a preconceived mold of pretense and the usual shiny happy Sunshine bull crap everyone (for some strange reason) believes is so necessary?
Some people actually consider Helen Steiner Rice to be a great Poet. I prefer Baudelaire's and His Satanic Majesty; George Gordon The Lord Byron.
2006-10-12 03:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's open to interpretation in many ways. It's concise, with few words and yet rich in meaning. It's like a piece of Godiva designer chocolate, small but oh so good.
2006-10-12 03:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by boo! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it just amazes me that a couple of lines or stanzas can be filled with so much meaning and emotions. and if you really connect with it, it hits you deeper than you can imagine
2006-10-12 03:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by redbutton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You gotta have some feeling man...
you know what i mean rIte?
2006-10-12 02:53:00 · answer #5 · answered by ~Peace~N~Love~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They just talk into your soul - of course, not all of them, just THOSE PARTICULAR which you find great.
2006-10-12 02:47:08 · answer #6 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their sense of wonder.
2006-10-12 02:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by miniaras 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋