Vincent Huidobro’s, “Ars Poetica” captures the essence of poetry extremely well for he not only relays what effects a good poem should have on the audience but he does in the fashion of a poem almost seemingly in jest. I have read one to many poems, that seem to create an image, which only exists in the writers mind and is inevitably impossible to create in o

ne's head through the poems content alone. The piece may be dealing with a situation that is personal only to the composer and it really has no effect on anyone who is not knowledgeable of all the different aspects which might make up the poems body. While this could still be grounds for a great poem many times I muse that they these personal type of poems are only to personal. On the other hand, I believe that if every poem, personal or not, were constructed to the form presented in “Ars Poetica” there would not be such hatred towards poems because of the mere perplexity they bestow on the reader. Vincent writes, “L!

he equivalent of an entirely new world, which in reality is only attainable by a powerful God. Huidobro then goes on through the poem that by the end he declares of a poet as being a “little God” (Huidobro 18). This phrase is very hypothetical in reality but is very true in the imaginative arena of literature, for as humans we were created in God's image and we, too have the power to create, thus personifying the traits of a great poet exceptionally well. If a poet has the ability to create detailed images with words only in the minds of an audience, is it not, on a muc

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