Feelings and when you make people think about the meaning....also when everyone can relate to the piece of art.

when it hits home, whether love or humor. good question. I haven't seen you on here in a while.

It has a theme,a story, beginning and end, and it rhymes. A poem that doesn't rhyme to me, is just a a short story. Best Poem I've read was "the raven". edger allen poe.

William Wordsworth and John keats

Have you seen "Dead Poets Society"? Robin Williams as John Keating (the teacher at an exclusive prep school). KEATING Gentlemen, open your text to page twenty-one of the introduction. Mr. Perry, will you read the opening paragraph of the preface, entitled "Understanding Poetry"? NEIL Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech. Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective. Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatest becomes a relatively simple matter. Keating gets up from his desk and prepares to draw on the chalk board. NEIL If the poem's score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness. Keating draws a corresponding graph on the board and the students dutifully copy it down. NEIL A sonnet by Byron may score high on the vertical, but only average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, would score high both horizontally and vertically, yielding a massive total area, thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. As you proceed through the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. As your ability to evaluate poems in this matter grows, so will - so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry. Neil sets the book down and takes off his glasses. The student sitting across from him is discretely trying to eat. Keating turns away from the chalkboard with a smile. KEATING Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. We're not laying pipe, we're talking about poetry.