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Original Poem Reprinted Online Here:  "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish More Information about the Poet: Archibald MacLeish "A poem should be palpable and mute / as globed fruit,"  This is how this poem starts out -- humorous rhyme with the images being as realistically awkward as possible.  The funny thing is that this "Ars Poetica" or a poem about writing a poem changes but the form is the same -- couplets -- the writer and his words. "Dumb / as old medallions to the thumb"   I was thinking that this was a older version of "dumb" as in mute but here I think that the reader shouldn't take the meaning too seriously and look at the rhyme scheme for the sake of rhyme scheme. "Silent as the sleeve-worn stone / Of ceasement ledges where the moss has grown."  And in this case, there's a play of the definition of dumb coming back to the next stanza (silence) and the image of layers -- the ledge and then the moss. "A ...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Ars Poetica" by Natania Rosenfeld Originally read: February 19, 2013 More information about the Poet: Natania Rosenfeld "Ars Poetica" is a very loaded title.  Ars Poetica --Poetics of the speaker (this was my definition I brought before reading the poem.  Ars Poetica -- "The Art of Poetry."   This term sets up, especially in the title, forces the reader to look at the construction of the poem and how the form, subject, and mode is in relation to the form, subject, and mode. And I did just.  Past me read and put comments like, "The conjunction of 'or' brings a sense of separation -- theme reoccuring in the previous stanza.  Forced from the speaker or style."  When I was rereading the poem (out loud) again I realized something about the difference between past me and the reader I am now. Yes, I can look at the form, subject, and mood and discern what these things add to the creation of poetry.  However,...

Original poem reprinted online here: "In My Craft or Sullen Art" by Dylan Thomas Originally read: January 30, 2013 More information about the Poet: Dylan Thomas After rereading this again and again, I think about the title.  I think the title cuts multiple ways, but these two ways stick out for me.  There could be a separation between "My Craft" or "Sullen Art"; or, there one could define the other, "My Craft" = "Sullen Art.  The poem could actually be read both ways since the first stanza and the last stanza address the same issue of art and readership, but in different perspectives. In the first stanza, the speaker compares his/her night activities to those of "lovers"; however, the focus here is on the lovers and the line cuts from scene to contexts, "And the lovers lie abed / With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light"  not that this is the longest line in the poem and sticks out pretty awkwardly; ...