What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs

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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.
#poetry

[@nanayang3736]

I don't know why but I am so glad that there's something machine cannot do while we can

[@Languste]

夢族雪羽 Just let the machine make random things with a pencil, and if you are lucky, after one billion tries you have a short more or less good poem ;P

[@horseradish843]

Something very useless

[@user-es3th6he7x]

Cannot do Yet.

[@SinZCrosS]

+Speedyjens well, someone's dead inside~~

[@GiraffeVortex]

夢族雪羽 Not for long

[@gracegrass4462]

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."

[@divyabhusal1738]

That's powerful.

[@garfieldfan100]

@@wutaeworld nice

[@nakiarobby3996]

The greatest

[@guycohen14]

amazing amazing description.

[@noeliamateos5558]

did not know this, I will use it for my homework lol. Thanks!

[@ff789n10]

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.

[@TheSleepyBeautyCo]

My biggest fear.

[@gamergirl-pixie0761]

Don’t say that you’re amazing believe in yourself my love

[@Ichigo-dh9rd]

While I can't even write poems :/ 1) my vocabulary is very limited 2) Idk but it's hard for me to express what I feel into words

[@siegfreidpercival8840]

Hi! I hope you could watch the film Paterson. We'll wait you and your poems once you're ready. You are a good poet, trust yourself and continue writing more. Have a nice day ahead!

[@rajeevsrivastava3829]

Would you share some of your poems?

[@iromosushi6291]

As a translator, poems are the hardest pieces to translate but the eagerness to share it's beauty pushes us

[@ivceballos]

Im sorry but it is impossible to know what someone felt and by the way had other views, and had a background unknown to us. when they wrote a poem. A poem is the result of the person’s own, unique thoughts. So, yeah impossible to translate.

[@Serendip98]

@@ivceballos Was it Efim Etkind who said that there is no poetry difficult to translate, only lazy translators?

[@Rigeltan537]

Well agreed!

[@funAndwise]

i agree 100%

[@pedroignacio2717]

are u a 6 yr old to put minion on ur pfp

[@opencabinets]

my teacher is gonna make us watch this in class I can smell it

[@mthefangirl4956]

opencabinets did she?

[@aim7910]

Mine did 3 days ago

[@bingbong4061]

Bruh same

[@muhammadkhurram3433]

what the hecc im doing that right now

[@reagle9315]

Must be a very cool school you attend

[@tanweer307]

The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep, And poems to write before I sleep

[@harshithmahesh6083]

Ephemeral Eternity Stopping by the woods a snowy evening!

[@tanweer307]

Robert Frost is a LOVE

[@sarmadusmani4792]

Ephemeral Eternity this poem makes my mind wander off into the wilderness of possibilities.

[@tanweer307]

this makes me kind of sad, never knew why

[@sarmadusmani4792]

Ephemeral Eternity agreed, there is also a kind of nostalgia attached to it.

[@whenyousmileismiletoo5419]

Everyone writes so beautifully Its so hard for me to put things down on paper

[@SharkSalesman90]

Don't get overwhelmed, the paper never judges you, you can write whatever you want and it would still be a meaningful verse. Everyone has something to contribute that creates our own meaning and understanding of the world

[@__-bk6mm]

But you’re part of the everyone, so it’s your time to put it to paper :)

[@11Reload]

Keep writing

[@a.harrispoems2738]

How is your writing now? If you keep at it, you’ll find it improves.

[@meenakshi6344]

You don't have to show it to anyone to begin with. It doesn't have to be great. It will get better with time. Good luck

[@jithyaw1800]

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.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

That makes sense

[@hole1stdrillpresschannel]

Roses are gray, Violets are gray, I´m colorblind, what shall I say...

[@jasminsultana8245]

hole - 1st drill press channel It was awesome

[@avril3364]

BigDogJang0 there's different types of color blindness

[@leigh7569]

BigDogJang0 Monochromacy exists, although rare.

[@kr-dl9yu]

Jd D nice rhyme xD

[@azuregriffin1116]

Tyler of Twenty Øne Piløts said he raps because he writes poems that would take too long at a 'poetic pace' or words to that effect.

[@gustoeriolas9184]

Video title: What makes a poem...a poem? Comment section: You know I'm somewhat of a poet myself!!

[@ashieshhh]

*poet

[@hugoalfaro8895]

Poet*

[@jadamalia4964]

A good poem embroides scenery and imagery

[@gustoeriolas9184]

@@ashieshhh Lol, I didnt saw that for 3 months

[@gustoeriolas9184]

@@jadamalia4964 Good to know

[@shantcheetah]

I genuinely believe that everyone is a poet. We all have our unique perspectives on life that are formulated by our personal experiences.

[@leomcanthony]

At the touch love; every man becomes a poet. A quote attributed to Plato

[@imjustagirlletmeliveomg]

Everyone is a poet, waiting to get discovered by love or struck by disaster

[@bobtaub1300]

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

[@pimtu1374]

lovely

[@Anony.mo_us_.]

Lovvvelyy!

[@eftscreenshotter8817]

It's so beautiful!

[@penny4884]

i dont like it

[@Nothingtohave69]

​@@Anony.mo_us_. also ❤❤❤

[@FidaAifiya]

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

[@KrisPBacon69]

record broken: shortest poem ever

[@marcella8576]

john cage's 3'44

[@nephthyz2990]

That's genius. One of the biggest poetry slammers in the world did something alike.

[@ishikajain3668]

@@nephthyz2990 what did he do? I am curious

[@Mo-gw5bq]

Hahahahahahahahaha genius!

[@mazenhamad8936]

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

[@andthencametherain4419]

That's conventional everything is poetic enough,some are shallow enough to have lotus float over it, some are deep enough to hold treasures of sinking ships .....

[@jedidiah930]

paterson

[@user-J.M.A.I]

Brilliant

[@cheng6940]

maybe i ask for too much but maybe this thing was a masterpiece til you tore it all up.

[@boxfox2945]

​@@cheng6940 maybe' in the tearing, at last' it became' a masterpiece, worthy' of remembrance.

[@wanderingyourway3163]

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!

[@turiguliano416]

What you think - here's something I just wrote today: ''Flesh and bone Owns nothing but tombstones But in its thinking zones Makes wishingbones to dispose thrones By creating codes And making clones With presupposed shows of wearing robes And so in its nose it see no wholes And builds roads that impose loads of drones And as time flows it gets exposed As taking loans Without atones Create rows of gravestones'' ''Flesh and bone Who ownes nothing but owes Take the road that’s proposed by He who owns the throne He shows and knows And He will dispose a road that has no wholes And so you won’t be froze by codes that are overexposed And you will not moan Missing roads of Ohs and No’s He’s the one who shows the ropes He’s the one who creates the codes He’s the one who owns the zones He’s the one who sows the woes And He’s the one who throws the glows at your bones''

[@Rigeltan537]

Visit me!

[@grqe.odyssey]

made this poem. not capitalized bc why not. life is a false facade death is the reality look at the saltwater of the ocean life is the water you drown yourselves into oblivion death is the salt that doesn't sugarcoat

[@funAndwise]

i love your positivity

[@AsiaDanceScene]

Hearing this guy's soft narrator's voice reciting the lyrics to one of the harshest diss tracks ever written (Biggie) was worth the click.

[@BellaVita1890]

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.

[@mobassirahmedhemel4736]

yet, this might change within a few years, unfortunately.

[@johnmcphee3136]

@@mobassirahmedhemel4736 It's already changing to an extent now. If you give ChatGPT reasonably detailed instructions it can produce what some may call good poetry. The following poem was written by a machine: The sky, once bright and clear and blue, Is now a thing we scarcely knew. For every night, in every town, Electric light shines all around. The stars, once twinkling in the night, Are now a fading, distant sight. The moon, so full and round and fair, Is hidden by the electric glare. The sky is not the same as before, A thing we loved and longed for. It's hard to feel that sense of awe When we can't see the sky at all. Oh, how we long to see the stars, To watch the moon and feel its charms. But now it seems that all is lost, Our sky, a thing of the past. So let us mourn the passing years, And all the beauty that disappears. For though the sky may be concealed, It's still a thing we long to feel. Fairly unpolished, sure, but not half-bad. And the technology is only due to get better from here.

[@abhinavdp7376]

​@@johnmcphee3136 Its true, chatGPT can concoct poetry well enough.

[@FlopgamingOne]

Robots can mimic everything and anything

[@donclay007]

Well, we're here and unfortunately it HAS. ​@@mobassirahmedhemel4736

[@erkkalehtonen5107]

hi bye that is a poem about my lovelife :(

[@orange-one]

Lmao laughed so hard

[@orange-one]

Ketchup and mustard

[@loveauditor]

LMAO

[@mahek7357]

zupermiez 😂😂 mine is just bye

[@ashiwashi]

Oof

[@brie5070]

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.

[@tempest5005]

Awesome. Great job dude, really liked it.

[@sofiabonilla9976]

I loved ur poem!

[@abhiasokkumar8536]

It’s beautiful! Please continue writing and don’t ever lose your passion for poetry

[@nuetralkitty58]

Why did such a simple poem touch my heart? Is it because it was about the rain? Or did it seem like a metaphor for something?

[@poshpavillion5469]

Amazing dude your awesome just keep practicing

[@Sitara_1111]

4:09 "The line between poetry, prose, song and visual art has blurred. " Is the real definition of contemporary poetry indeed....

[@ElephantWhisperer222]

Roses are red, BB-8 is round, it's over Anakin I have the high ground.

[@mizukisora7735]

You underestimate my powers!!!

[@rickyd3987]

Don't do it Anakian!

[@jasper2621]

Ricky D aa

[@loyrey]

Conner Cox The best in the galaxy!!!

[@Aerchain]

Conner Cox lolololollll

[@Coldbladexxx]

The ending was poetic

[@Coldbladexxx]

WhiZ Zithhz RL It's open for interpretation

[@rickyd3987]

*Dramatic Vsauce music plays*

[@muhammadkhurram3433]

ur poetic hah

[@isabelleliu995]

1. Poem emphasize language's musical qualities 1:01 2. Poems use condensed language 1:13 3. Poems often features intense feelings 1:20 Are songs poems? 2:10 Enter the prose poem 3:03 Conclusion: the evolvement of poetry 4:00

[@michellecarrillo7372]

you just saved me, thank you so much!

[@rickkcir2]

Thanks!

[@user-ne3sy4xl2z]

Thx

[@najibasayed6347]

Thanks the answer I needed u rock

[@poshpavillion5469]

You really understand poems they are very unique mainly because they can be written in different ways like song poems and even some normal songs.

[@BUKCOLLECTOR]

Very much enjoyed your discussion. I, too, am a poet but specialize in Japanese forms: i. e. haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Matsuo Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples - -Al Fogel “At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”. And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al

[@a.harrispoems2738]

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[@Kuokino23]

Poetry is a feeling, With such a powerful meaning, Which word came out, And word came in, And so it create, A wonderful being.

[@safespace907]

wow 😇

[@user-vj3jx2ho6x]

Wow! This blows my mind. Teachers have never taught us about this. I think everyone learning poetry should watch this video first so they can have a better concept of what poems are. Thanks for everyone who make this video!

[@kartikr5995]

1930s poets(being simple): today I ate spaghetti... 2021 teachers: spaghetti represents pain and suffering..

[@donkeyDangerMouse]

The very form of poetry lends itself to being more than the literal words on a page. Why when you have so few, would you choose those words? And why would you say that they are a poem? Unless it is a statement about breaking perceptions of poetry, transcending poetry, and how everything is the interpretation of the reader, which only creates a cult of personality around the author themselves, and will therefore not allow a poem to exist free from the other poems by the author, and from the authors life

[@amritkumarpatel5717]

Totally true hahahahhahahahhahah

[@psychic_digit]

This art style is something I've been trying to achieve for a long time. Very good work!

[@aceandson]

Thanks! It's just pencil and paper shot over a lightbox with a regular ol' camera.

[@psychic_digit]

@@aceandson I just really like how your drawings can seem so detailed when in reality they look clean and fairly simple, I've tried to draw in a similar way but I've never really been able to pull it off. It's fascinating and very cool

[@aceandson]

@@psychic_digit A lot of practice! And teamwork. There's no trick to drawing how you want to draw, just hard work. With this film, we're helped by the process. Drawing on paper is almost always going to be more naturally textured, that helps with the look of being detailed. Then we "backlit" the art so you can see the layers through the paper. This adds even more visual activity. But the important thing -just keep doing it!

[@psychic_digit]

@@aceandson Thank you :) Keep up the great work!

[@Wisehousepublishingunlimited]

Thank you. This video is absolutely amazing. It really explains the essence and the composition of a poem.

[@blanmorrison1794]

Shout out to the people who made these sketches. These are great! Ted's animators are amazing!

[@roastingnerd8545]

A poem is dance of words With each stanza waltzing with words A poem is art without the lines and shapes But with its canvas filled with words A poem is a song and an instrument But with no notes changed just your burdened voice crackling along the waves Most of all poem is art, It is alive and manual Poetry is a world filled with people different from all with rhyme or not, It is a poem nevertheless.

[@wanderingyourway3163]

It's beautiful.

[@turiguliano416]

Here's something I just wrote today: ''Flesh and bone Owns nothing but tombstones But in its thinking zones Makes wishingbones to dispose thrones By creating codes And making clones With presupposed shows of wearing robes And so in its nose it see no wholes And builds roads that impose loads of drones And as time flows it gets exposed As taking loans Without atones Create rows of gravestones'' ''Flesh and bone Who ownes nothing but owes Take the road that’s proposed by He who owns the throne He shows and knows And He will dispose a road that has no wholes And so you won’t be froze by codes that are overexposed And you will not moan Missing roads of Ohs and No’s He’s the one who shows the ropes He’s the one who creates the codes He’s the one who owns the zones He’s the one who sows the woes And He’s the one who throws the glows at your bones''

[@turiguliano416]

Here is one I just wrote today: From nowhere to nevermind Living alone on a island in the sky My soul yarns for itself But the eyes are not made to see I When talking out loud in the night Silence seems to be the loudest line Soul can you speak to me in my mind? I haven’t heard you silence in a while But how can you be listing And talking to yourself at the same time?

[@fellith4295]

@@turiguliano416 I like it! could you tell me more about the meaning behind?

[@turiguliano416]

@@fellith4295 Thak you! Means a lot. Are you talking about 'From nowhere to nevermind' or 'Flesh and bone'? Please let me know and I will give you the breakdown on what it means to me, and then you can give me your interpretation too maybe. :)

[@journeytopoetry5724]

I would love to see a video detailing the changes in poetry throughout time.

[@Spittingink]

Great range of poets in this clip, across cultures and time.

[@jader4935]

"Roses are blue, Violets are red, I have to go to the bathroom..." -Patrick Star

[@nariahramchere6792]

I don't think Patrick star from SpongeBob is that smart

[@sashaleigh6655]

Amazing.

[@themeatspot5020]

The words and the way you used them in this video was a form on poetry to me

[@digitaldoves]

Thanks, there is a vulnerable beauty to poetry that other mediums simply cannot capture. I try to tap into this myself. Thank you.

[@iamlenamora]

Poem is the all time way of expressing heart in the most natural way, it's just feels and I am so happy I am a part of it and how much it helped me express my dark moments.

[@lotovalejnrnanai9505]

Feelings can kill one's emotion of defeat..but the selection of proof..is to convince what desires you can achieve.. emotions are felt through the monument of entice..so to calculate the infringement..is to perceive the concept of trust.. express yourself sweetie 😉😎🤭

[@quentinlynch]

Red as a rose, Blue as the sea, The other way round, Is Poe a tree?

[@anony_mouse1]

“Cross It All Out” Writing poetry is cake You can bake in one take It’s just a mild chore To make metaphors And little difficulty To toss in some simile It’s easy as pie Like a stoner getting high To write like a Keats Or a Poe or a Yeats Then cross out two-thirds But just the wrong words That's all that it takes If you mind your line breaks And create clever consonance When considering your consonants Then there's the ending

[@thelazylumpofprotoplasm8491]

Did u write this ?

[@thelazylumpofprotoplasm8491]

It's awesome 🔥

[@anony_mouse1]

@@thelazylumpofprotoplasm8491 yeppers

[@mybraineatseverything7404]

One of my favorite poetic lines comes from the opening of Marilyn Manson's song, "The Reflecting God" - Your world is an ashtray. We burn and coil like cigarettes. The more you cry, your ashes turn to mud. If that doesn't get you viscerally and give you a clear visual, I don't know what will.

[@Lucifer-vi2fe]

The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And syllabus to complete before I sleep

[@amnakausar9306]

I have no idea what it is about the line 'miles to go before I sleep' that its just evokes idek what to call it because its not sadness but it feels more like nostalgia similar to how I'd if I see something that reminds me strongly of my childhood. I find it so weird that I feel nostalgia.

[@mari02492]

You should publish this

[@DhrithionVocals]

@@amnakausar9306 I agree... I felt some kind of connection or nostalgia when I read that line in the poem...

[@SharkSalesman90]

That poem is so tragicly beautiful

[@anupriya9632]

​​@@amnakausar9306 isn't it the one that's called "Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost?

[@34kbro]

This video taught me a lot. Inspired to write down a jot. I think I'll begin, before the video ends, and do it whilst lying on my cot.

[@bingraobeijing]

awesome for two reasons: useful content n straight talk. thank you!

[@tantoy5486]

I saw a quote online that what makes a poem great is its creative sentences thats full of mysteries for the reader to understand or something like that

[@MilanTheAngel]

For sale: Baby shoes, never used.

[@avery-dv7sw]

Kinda rude of you not to put who actually wrote that

[@annasmith3723]

Carrot Slice hahahaha

[@JeremyExpresso2912]

It's a extremely short story, not a poem

[@lukefossati3788]

deep, man

[@auntiesneer6302]

Used baby For sale; Never shoes.

[@nancysalas3210]

There are a lot of ways to represent poetry, it can be on a rhyme or a sonnet, it can be narrative or lyrical. Only humans can make it and it is so beautiful how they express themselves. Poetry is based most of the time on feelings and they can be so deep that they can touch others, they use vivid images and they are capable to move society.

[@VictoriaSarabia1]

I am a poet i discovered it not long ago! I love to express with small poetry stories. I am not afraid to share as I do them for me 😊but if I find that most of the time others that connect love them ❤

[@QuirkyGirlCorner]

Expressing what it means to be human and what we experience as such will always break and bend the boundaries of our ability to express it

[@KshitijKePaar]

Vsauce wrote the title

[@TheLegend-xs9np]

Fearr hw do you know

[@Beyking1234]

TheLegend27 Well all the titles he uses are questions( most of the time ) and the questions are always queries about the most basic things being true, or doubting their true nature. So well this title perfectly fits Vsauce's criterion for choosing a title

[@hannahsab5782]

Fearr he actually has a video like this about the shortest poem

[@Beyking1234]

hannah sab Damn! looks like im getting wayy to analytic then😂😁

[@hxhuang9306]

Or, did he? (insert weird BGM)

[@lucaswong4247]

I'm a simple man; I see biggie and i click

[@averyhostiletrout9077]

Lucas Wong same lol

[@AhmeMisa]

Same lol

[@ericbethmann4065]

exactly what i did

[@bullthemessenger_9435]

My favorite poet/rapper. I think I'm just as good if not a better writer than one of the kings of "Rhythm & Poetry".

[@leomcanthony]

Dang! This is a lot of us🤠

[@enanaiiz_a]

I love when my teacher assigns us to create a poem it fills the void in me

[@aim__freakz8499]

amazing video! there's alot more artists that are amazing poets :) and beautifully animated

[@geralsevilla]

I love the animation!! they did a great job!!

[@turiguliano416]

Here is one I just wrote today: From nowhere to nevermind Living alone on a island in the sky My soul yarns for itself But the eyes are not made to see I When talking out loud in the night Silence seems to be the loudest line Soul can you speak to me in my mind? I haven’t heard you silence in a while But how can you be listing And talking to yourself at the same time?

[@prachisharma457]

That's beautiful!

[@anupriya9632]

Beautifully written ❤

[@user-ci2lg1lw5b]

무엇이 시를 시답게 만들어주는지에 대하여 배워보는 시간이 되었습니다. 시에 특징에 대해서 알아보았습니다. 정말 재미있는 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다. 응원합니다!!!

[@rainbowpoems443]

This is one of the poem on rain and a conversation with the earthly man…. And here is the poem- *Address to the Rain God* I sat gravely before the window, watching the dark that laid before me profoundly thinking for a moment or so, about the Showery world that I could see. And up the heaven, I looked henceforth Towards the paradise, till the eye's sought 'What makes him rain such?' 'Brutish he is' is what I thought. Above the world I looked far end And beneath came the God of Rain Thundering the skies and the heart of men stiffening the shower that had went insane. I stood there aquivering with fear for he stood in front of me and asked me for my remembrance knowing well that it is he who caused it. Politely I said with tongue no less, "This world is beautiful with creations unparallel" But the unstoppable rains have made such mess Why don't you stop that you shall! 'It is you the humans', replied he 'who pray for rain' The rain that quenches the Earth's thirst Deepening the swift streams that long last And then calling for it to return to the den. And Oh! the inner me felt deafeated But I stood there losing no faith But that was prime, this is subordinate "Has the thirst, vanished not yet!" The rain has caused havoc on crust The temporary world is biting the dust Fields overflowed by the tyrant rain 'Floods and rain', are they same? The king of splashes was pleased with me, At least what I thought from what I saw And replied with a strong voice With the winds added to his draw. Glad are you, jolly are all, Happy are you when the rains do fall. Irrigating the fields," the mother earth weeps For the joy, that water beneath seeps. The joy lasts shorter do remember, For nothing lasts Forever and sorrow after joy is a chain of cycle Each in it's time is completely great So he told and so he went Leaving an impression that long lasted Shaken was I and ended up in faint Oh the conversation was just what I dreamt. The story still doesn't end here and I ain't, For it teaches that nothing is permanent. Time heals everything, just wait for the day For joy and sorrow both are great. Joy comes after Sorrow, misery after happiness Just don't look behind the eternal fence. Life is not a bed of thorns, wise men say, For a man on alms is a king next day And here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYWlhn6ChMamqJo

[@esthersantos6599]

A voz desse homem é tão boa de ouvir que eu quase durmo

[@abdulmujeebquick4452]

The poetry I find here is that it has taken 4 years and 2 million views for this video to find me on a night where I struggle with meaning of a beating heart. I think poetry is a like like molecules. It’s everywhere, always. There is great poetry in trying to explain poetry.

[@SharkSalesman90]

You've got a beautiful understanding of this art.

[@saritanakra]

I so much admire your channel. Such enlightening videos. :)

[@yellowbubble8465]

I'm kinda glad there's no real definition of a poem. When I read poems from others, it just feels...transcendental in a way? Like it's meaningful somehow. And that makes me want to write my own. I thought I'd have to learn how many syllables must be in one sentence, like haikus, or some other rules. But apparently, poems that break rules are just different poems. That's comforting.

[@deenuk125]

Kendrick Lamar Lyrics (Never Catch Me Flying Lotus ft Kendrick Lamar) This is poetry - I can see the darkness in me and it's quite amazing Life and death is no mystery and I wanna taste it Step inside of my mind and you'll find curiosity, animosity High philosophy, hyper prophesied meditation Reminisce on my wonder years and I wonder here Sentiments of my words ain't been so sincere The sentiment of my nerves that I just persevere The big thought of fallin' off disappeared to my fate They say that Heaven's real Analyze my demise, I say I'm super anxious Recognize I deprive this feeling and then I embrace it Vandalizing these walls only if they could talk Conversations won't contemplate to my dark thoughts

[@royhibbert8520]

abdullah hussian one of the best rappers of all time for me

[@kwazirich8447]

I love everything about that song; the beat, the melody; and his delivery of that verse.

[@tubsysalt9609]

how about the TPAB poem "I remember you was conflicted, misusing..."

[@jacksonwojnowski2050]

While it's hard to technically define poetry, we recognize a poem when we see/hear it.

[@yiamproductions8579]

Poetry - Enjoyed listening to this. Thank you.

[@deyontaepatterson5695]

i absolutely love the use of colour in this video

[@rowanbrown5541]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Some day we'll ride down blood gulch avenue, It's red vs. red, And blue vs. blue, It's eye against eye and me against you.

[@magicmaria5632]

Rowan Brown Nice

[@lovelylittlegirl3332]

👏👏👏

[@rustybuns5397]

I might be a year late on this comment but AAAAAAAYYYYEEEE!!!!

[@anahir2930]

Duuuuude that's awesome!!!! ❤❤

[@huliobunsee4469]

Really good

[@eleaalyxsonmasibay3138]

Wow this was explained so good it is very easy to undestand, now I clearly understand what makes poem a poem thank youuu❤️ - Elea Masibay

[@jonathanmoreno7240]

Thank you for the video:)It was amazing

[@desirepoem-formybabyangeli1212]

We need poem- to really help today world- that is one reason I started my channel to express different emotion that has been going in my life! The poem is the life of expression!

[@bijaykantdubey6055]

Feeling, emotion, thought, idea and reflection get converted into poetry if one has the instincts to write to add to creatively, if one seeks to sketch and draw. Images, thoughts, ideas, memories, remembrances, scenes and sights give an impetus to write. A poem may be about the tombstone of Yeats with the own epitaph of his. A poem may be about Shakespearean heroines or Shakespearean criticism. A poem may be a tribute to Wordsworth, Milton, Shakespeare, Yeats. A poem may be about Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King. it may be about book-reading.

[@cakeicingbeartrap7268]

"Me We" turn the W upside down and you got the modern world.

[@sugaredd3572]

meme

[@hunterpeterson6122]

me me big boy

[@laughinglaughing1416]

clever girl

[@williamyo1]

Are you 14 and do you think that this is deep?

[@ryfrz]

meme

[@FlipStar26]

I love love love that they included lyrics from BIG's "Who Shot Ya"!!!

[@ghettostarr249]

🔥 Tell em

[@AvisPope]

Great video 🎉 I tell my readers that poetry is whatever the author and reader perceives it to be ❤🥰

[@hamadbakheet815]

In Arabic , poetry is a way more fascinating subject because in almost all poems must rhyme with the structure composed of lines made of two parallel sentences , the second sentence in all lines must rhyme together and these restrictions ignited creativity in a way that almost all poems parallel sentences takes a symmetrical shape from a rhythmic perspective.

[@msrainbowmoonfire1802]

What makes a poem a poem? It's when words become your best chum To take away your pain or boredom Doesn't matter if it's long or short Full of imagery or just plain quotes As long as it speaks to your soul That's what's most important above all.

[@msrainbowmoonfire1802]

@Masked Pawn Thank you.🙏

[@lastravaganza2385]

This is good

[@ProgRockDan1]

Thanks for the guidance

[@poshpavillion5469]

This is a must Watch video and I am starting to realize that the story line of a poem cc an be used to make movies and stories some times a poem can be based on someone or something's life .

[@johnsmith8981]

"the robots were caught %100 of the time" ChatGPT: hold my beer.

[@Sam-xw9hv]

I find this lesson very intersting as it does not only deals with poems but also art and literature in general... However I would have talked a bit about music as it is, in my opinion, a kind of poetry and peotry is very often linked with music. When I read poems it sometimes fells like I am singins as sounds are very important in poetry. For instance there is a wonderful video (which you can very easily find on youtube...) in which a man reads Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but in addtion, he added jazz music which makes it absolutely wonderful ! :) However a robot is now cappabled to creat music... But I guess that it is for another lesson :)

[@leinardesteves3987]

Imo anything that can evoke an emotion or a feeling is art.

[@junjuncea.6349]

Its a way to understand everything with expression!

[@adityakhanna113]

I hold the belief that if it flows, it's poetry if it's staccato, it's rap. Like Analog and Digital

[@Languste]

Aditya Khanna Was this an allusion to EnteTaimnment? :O Okay you are not German... welp... probably not ._.

[@adityakhanna113]

I am sorry, I have no idea about what you said :/

[@Languste]

Aditya Khanna It is a German rapper ^^ And he made a song called "Analog Digital", and you also mentioned the word rap :P

[@andrewwhite1097]

Rap is also a form of poetry

[@gnanay8555]

rap can be staccato, but rap flows. rap = rythm and poetry.

[@tamaraallaineparenas6402]

Thank you so much for this, I've learned a lot❤️❤️ - Tamara Allaine M. Pareñas

[@rawrhymes7677]

This video is vital. I learnt a lot.

[@outthasky]

As I understand it, the haiku is more about breath than syllable. This video illustrates (by happenstance) the beautiful translation of appropriation that is evolution.

[@gulnarav98]

A snowless winter Summer with a sleeping sun Autumn without colors Spring, no plants that bloom A painting without paint Blue eyes, but no ocean Flowers with lost petals Kind words, no emotion A dreamless sleep A sleepless night Lonely thoughts The moon lost her light (Wrote it at 3am)

[@comrade6029]

wow, that's beautiful :D

[@skmuskanrahaman1690]

There are places where it doesn't snow in winters, soo.... I haven't seen snow in my life.🙄

[@hope-.]

So beautiful!!

[@o_o1435]

@@skmuskanrahaman1690 me too i am from Philippines

[@JaleelJuillet]

@@skmuskanrahaman1690 That was his point exactly…

[@sithlordbinks]

i love how they just casually reference tupac at 2:19 and then the notorious BIG

[@2wyth.gbedupoet]

See poetry as a concept than as a structure. It opens us to more poetry in everyday language.

[@yahjangalmilotakphailahuahai]

I like also how what makes a combination of words sound pleasing to the ear varies by language. English and German love rhyme. English-speakers also love alliteration. Latin-speakers liked a good meter between the language's long and short syllables, whereas Ancient Greek liked harmony between the different tones of their vowels, and Japanese likes a good rhythm in the pitch accent.

[@meloncake7933]

Poem is a song Poem is an art Poem is what you hold in dear Beauty in all more than words There is a poem in everything Heard if one want to hear

[@lastravaganza2385]

That's really good honestly.

[@meloncake7933]

Thank u

[@souravbhowmik2588]

Damn man, that narrator's voice is so soothing

[@adrianpelenio4575]

Thank you for uploading this, this helps me understand more about the topic :)) -Adrian Pelenio

[@dreamER.86]

What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs, Thanks for share your great video..Sir..it's really great experience for watching your video..it's really educate and build brilliant idea..thanks..💯👍

[@annarelyszayas4060]

Ive written poems. Here's a line: Life is a gift you must appreciate,death is a burden you must not underestimate. Have a lovely day ;)

[@elizabethroy4338]

May I use the "death is a burden you must not underestimate" for an assignment?

[@alexplaysminc.-.5922]

s t e a l for personal use :)

[@aftabahmad8658]

👍

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I don't think robots could never be better poets since one has to feel something when making a poem.

[@rayn2140]

Great point mate

[@nathanl.l387]

This video gave me chills

[@MrclockOFFICIAL]

2:39 These Lyrics are from The album “Ready to die” And The song is “Who shot ya”

[@boldbusiness2575]

Of all the flowers in the land, The rose is queen, so fair and grand. Her petals soft as morning dew, Her colors bright in every hue. The rose is love in flower form, A symbol of emotions warm. Her fragrance sweet, her beauty rare, A treasure beyond all compare. With thorns so sharp and leaves so green, The rose is nature's perfect scene. A sight to see in every season, A symbol of life's endless reason. For in the rose we find a way, To celebrate both night and day. In joy and love and sorrow too, The rose is there, forever true. So let us praise this flower fair, And cherish her with love and care. For in the rose, we find a friend, A beauty that will never end. Written by ChatGPT

[@lemoneproductions420]

I think it lacks direction somewhat but it has a very good sense of flow with a suitable conclusion. Surprising what AI is capable of.

[@XZA.B]

Started off confused, ended off feeling smart asf

[@boldbusiness2575]

@@lemoneproductions420 agreed

[@mynameishuman9328]

I felt like it was hard to detached Like it felt cold and my body ached. It felt horrible to think. I did not want to think . I feel better now, and the aching is going away. But it comes back again if I don’t keep my mind in place.

[@funAndwise]

can we even find a better channel than ted-ed ?? thank you for all the fun education , i wish more channels doe the same

[@VibrantAvatar]

oh lord, such a good video and the animations were suspenseful enough.