What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
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Published 2017-03-20
What exactly makes a poem … a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable characteristics of most poetry.
Lesson by Melissa Kovacs, animation by Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC.
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All Comments (21)
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I don't know why but I am so glad that there's something machine cannot do while we can
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my teacher is gonna make us watch this in class I can smell it
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As a translator, poems are the hardest pieces to translate but the eagerness to share it's beauty pushes us
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I've written hundreds of poems. I can't even count them. Always writing more. It's my great passion. I love reading others' poems too. My great fear is that I'll never be able to share them with an audience, stuck forever in my seclusion, obscure and hidden. Or worse, I will find a way to put it all out there only to be disregarded, rejected, or ridiculed.
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I've always liked Emily Dickinson's definition: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep, And poems to write before I sleep
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This is why I don't completely understand people who think music lyrics or short poems on instagram aren't poetry. To me, it feels like it's everywhere, and can be made by anyone in anyway about anything. There aren't really any rules, which, I think, is what makes poetry its own unique thing.
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This comment section is a fraternity of poets! I hope we all could meet and share all these in person. But for now whoever's reading this- You're an awesome poet. cheers!
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Roses are gray, Violets are gray, I´m colorblind, what shall I say...
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Video title: What makes a poem...a poem? Comment section: You know I'm somewhat of a poet myself!!
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Everyone writes so beautifully Its so hard for me to put things down on paper
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I genuinely believe that everyone is a poet. We all have our unique perspectives on life that are formulated by our personal experiences.
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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
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For some reason, I was brought almost to tears learning that robots can, in fact, NOT mimic humans in the area of poetry. It makes my heart swell to know this. <3
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GOOD POETRY We love to read good poetry It’s such a joy to see When written by a poet’s heart We know it will be good from the start. As a poet, you see must write with feeling If to the reader it will be appealing And the poet knows he must write it well If to hold the reader under It’s spell. “A good poet is one that writes from the HEART” R. Taub May12, 2015
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4:09 "The line between poetry, prose, song and visual art has blurred. " Is the real definition of contemporary poetry indeed....
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my classmate in middle school when asked to create and read his poem in front of the class, stood quiet for a moment then said, "that was my poem, titled 'Quiet'." Edit: the teacher told him to write an actual poem and perform again 😂 By the way this is my most successful youtube comment ever haha
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The ending was poetic
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Hi, I've always liked poetry and I had quite a knack for it considering my age when we learned about it in 6th grade, but I haven't written any poems in the two years since. Now we are learning about poetry again in 8th grade, and here is a Haiku that I wrote for class yesterday. The Rain -by Me The rain thuds loudly Its presence always the same Yet ever-changing It's not perfect, but for my first poem in two years, I'm pretty proud of it.
