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What makes agood poem?
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What makes a good poem?
Friday, April 11, 2014
Miriam College
English Class
magnificent, mystical, extraordinary
First, a poem must be magical,
then musical as a seagull
rhyme, rhythm, melody
First, A Poem Must Be Magical
By: Jose Garcia Villa
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.
brightness = clarity
moving = alive
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
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soar through the mind of the reader
First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.
A pure, startling, and resounding body of poetry, informed with so much legerity and fire, remarkably consistent in its devotion to spiritual reality. The subject matter is formidable, the author a God-driven poet. He arrives at peaks without showing the strenuous effort of climbing; the personal is lost in a blaze of linguistic glories.... (Eberhardt, 1958)
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
Slender = Slim = No extra baggage that are not needed. IT IS HEALTHY
Knows when to shoot and directs the arrow to its mark
Fire = zest, passion = SPIRIT
Symbol of Humility amidst beauty
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
it must be able to capture the essence of the subject from the thoughts of the author