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

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  • @nanayang3736
    @nanayang3736 7 лет назад +6467

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

    • @Languste
      @Languste 7 лет назад +141

      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
      @horseradish843 7 лет назад +26

      Something very useless

    • @user-es3th6he7x
      @user-es3th6he7x 7 лет назад +163

      Cannot do Yet.

    • @SinZCrosS
      @SinZCrosS 7 лет назад +12

      +Speedyjens well, someone's dead inside~~

    • @GiraffeVortex
      @GiraffeVortex 7 лет назад +21

      夢族雪羽 Not for long

  • @gracegrass4462
    @gracegrass4462 7 лет назад +3853

    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."

  • @iromosushi6291
    @iromosushi6291 2 года назад +513

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

    • @ivceballos
      @ivceballos Год назад +4

      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
      @Serendip98 8 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @Rigeltan537
      @Rigeltan537 6 месяцев назад

      Well agreed!

    • @funAndwise
      @funAndwise 3 месяца назад

      i agree 100%

    • @pedroignacio2717
      @pedroignacio2717 3 месяца назад

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

  • @ff789n10
    @ff789n10 3 года назад +1830

    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
      @TheSleepyBeautyCo 3 года назад +49

      My biggest fear.

    • @gamergirl-pixie0761
      @gamergirl-pixie0761 3 года назад +24

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

    • @Ichigo-dh9rd
      @Ichigo-dh9rd 3 года назад +25

      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
      @siegfreidpercival8840 2 года назад +10

      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
      @rajeevsrivastava3829 2 года назад +12

      Would you share some of your poems?

  • @hole1stdrillpresschannel
    @hole1stdrillpresschannel 7 лет назад +6461

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

    • @jasminsultana8245
      @jasminsultana8245 7 лет назад +17

      hole - 1st drill press channel It was awesome

    • @avril3364
      @avril3364 7 лет назад +52

      BigDogJang0 there's different types of color blindness

    • @leigh7569
      @leigh7569 7 лет назад +36

      BigDogJang0 Monochromacy exists, although rare.

    • @kr-dl9yu
      @kr-dl9yu 7 лет назад +8

      Jd D nice rhyme xD

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 7 лет назад +15

      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.

  • @opencabinets
    @opencabinets 7 лет назад +7534

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

  • @jithyaw1800
    @jithyaw1800 2 года назад +87

    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
      @yellowstarproductions6743 Год назад +1

      That makes sense

    • @SaltAndGracepoetry
      @SaltAndGracepoetry 2 дня назад

      Poems can be very short or very long and be good. Of all the poems I have written, one of my favourites is my shortest one.

  • @whenyousmileismiletoo5419
    @whenyousmileismiletoo5419 3 года назад +604

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

    • @SharkSalesman90
      @SharkSalesman90 2 года назад +96

      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
      @__-bk6mm 2 года назад +23

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

    • @11Reload
      @11Reload 2 года назад +8

      Keep writing

    • @a.harrispoems2738
      @a.harrispoems2738 2 года назад +9

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

    • @meenakshi6344
      @meenakshi6344 2 года назад +5

      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

  • @tanweer307
    @tanweer307 7 лет назад +1716

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

    • @harshithmahesh6083
      @harshithmahesh6083 7 лет назад +49

      Ephemeral Eternity Stopping by the woods a snowy evening!

    • @tanweer307
      @tanweer307 7 лет назад +40

      Robert Frost is a LOVE

    • @sarmadusmani4792
      @sarmadusmani4792 7 лет назад +19

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

    • @tanweer307
      @tanweer307 7 лет назад +16

      this makes me kind of sad, never knew why

    • @sarmadusmani4792
      @sarmadusmani4792 7 лет назад +10

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

  • @FidaAifiya
    @FidaAifiya 7 лет назад +5744

    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
      @KrisPBacon69 7 лет назад +485

      record broken: shortest poem ever

    • @marcella8576
      @marcella8576 7 лет назад +124

      john cage's 3'44

    • @nephthyz2990
      @nephthyz2990 7 лет назад +229

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

    • @ishikajain3668
      @ishikajain3668 5 лет назад +14

      @@nephthyz2990 what did he do? I am curious

    • @Mo-gw5bq
      @Mo-gw5bq 5 лет назад +6

      Hahahahahahahahaha genius!

  • @shantcheetah
    @shantcheetah 3 года назад +264

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

    • @leomcanthony
      @leomcanthony 2 года назад +9

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

    • @imjustagirlletmeliveomg
      @imjustagirlletmeliveomg Год назад +3

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

  • @isabelleliu995
    @isabelleliu995 3 года назад +284

    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
      @michellecarrillo7372 3 года назад +7

      you just saved me, thank you so much!

    • @rickkcir2
      @rickkcir2 2 года назад

      Thanks!

    • @user-ne3sy4xl2z
      @user-ne3sy4xl2z 2 года назад

      Thx

    • @najibasayed6347
      @najibasayed6347 2 года назад

      Thanks the answer I needed u rock

    • @poshpavillion5469
      @poshpavillion5469 Год назад

      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.

  • @gustoeriolas9184
    @gustoeriolas9184 4 года назад +2714

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

  • @mazenhamad8936
    @mazenhamad8936 4 года назад +1030

    "Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

    • @andthencametherain4419
      @andthencametherain4419 3 года назад +46

      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
      @jedidiah930 2 года назад

      paterson

    • @user-J.M.A.I
      @user-J.M.A.I 2 года назад +2

      Brilliant

    • @cheng6940
      @cheng6940 Год назад +6

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

    • @boxfox2945
      @boxfox2945 Год назад +1

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

  • @wanderingyourway3163
    @wanderingyourway3163 Год назад +164

    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
      @turiguliano416 Год назад +8

      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
      @Rigeltan537 6 месяцев назад

      Visit me!

    • @grqe.odyssey
      @grqe.odyssey 3 месяца назад +1

      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
      @funAndwise 3 месяца назад

      i love your positivity

  • @bobtaub1300
    @bobtaub1300 3 года назад +245

    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

  • @BellaVita1890
    @BellaVita1890 5 лет назад +253

    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
      @mobassirahmedhemel4736 Год назад +4

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

    • @johnmcphee3136
      @johnmcphee3136 Год назад +17

      @@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
      @abhinavdp7376 Год назад +4

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

    • @FlopgamingOne
      @FlopgamingOne 6 месяцев назад

      Robots can mimic everything and anything

    • @donclay007
      @donclay007 4 месяца назад

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

  • @erkkalehtonen5107
    @erkkalehtonen5107 7 лет назад +1951

    hi
    bye
    that is a poem about my lovelife :(

  • @AsiaDanceScene
    @AsiaDanceScene 2 года назад +30

    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.

  • @Sitara_1111
    @Sitara_1111 3 года назад +46

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

  • @ElephantWhisperer222
    @ElephantWhisperer222 7 лет назад +1209

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

    • @mizukisora7735
      @mizukisora7735 7 лет назад +47

      You underestimate my powers!!!

    • @rickyd3987
      @rickyd3987 7 лет назад +11

      Don't do it Anakian!

    • @jasper2621
      @jasper2621 7 лет назад +2

      Ricky D aa

    • @loyrey
      @loyrey 6 лет назад +3

      Conner Cox The best in the galaxy!!!

    • @Aerchain
      @Aerchain 6 лет назад +1

      Conner Cox lolololollll

  • @Coldbladexxx
    @Coldbladexxx 7 лет назад +234

    The ending was poetic

  • @kartikr5995
    @kartikr5995 2 года назад +216

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

    • @donkeyDangerMouse
      @donkeyDangerMouse 2 года назад +10

      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
      @amritkumarpatel5717 2 года назад +1

      Totally true hahahahhahahahhahah

  • @brie5070
    @brie5070 2 года назад +117

    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
      @tempest5005 2 года назад +12

      Awesome. Great job dude, really liked it.

    • @sofiabonilla9976
      @sofiabonilla9976 Год назад +4

      I loved ur poem!

    • @abhiasokkumar8536
      @abhiasokkumar8536 Год назад +5

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

    • @nuetralkitty58
      @nuetralkitty58 Год назад +3

      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
      @poshpavillion5469 Год назад +2

      Amazing dude your awesome just keep practicing

  • @Kuokino23
    @Kuokino23 6 лет назад +59

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

  • @jader4935
    @jader4935 7 лет назад +159

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

  • @roastingnerd8545
    @roastingnerd8545 3 года назад +139

    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
      @wanderingyourway3163 Год назад +5

      It's beautiful.

    • @turiguliano416
      @turiguliano416 Год назад +9

      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
      @turiguliano416 Год назад +3

      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
      @fellith4295 Год назад

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

    • @turiguliano416
      @turiguliano416 Год назад +2

      @@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.
      :)

  • @turiguliano416
    @turiguliano416 Год назад +13

    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?

  • @quentinlynch
    @quentinlynch 7 лет назад +65

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

  • @deenuk125
    @deenuk125 7 лет назад +37

    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
      @royhibbert8520 7 лет назад

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

    • @kwazirich8447
      @kwazirich8447 4 года назад

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

    • @tubsysalt9609
      @tubsysalt9609 Месяц назад

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

  • @BUKCOLLECTOR
    @BUKCOLLECTOR 2 года назад +19

    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

  • @rainbowpoems443
    @rainbowpoems443 3 года назад +45

    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
    ruclips.net/video/kTBUKLOasr8/видео.html

  • @blanmorrison1794
    @blanmorrison1794 7 лет назад +12

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

  • @KshitijKePaar
    @KshitijKePaar 7 лет назад +684

    Vsauce wrote the title

    • @TheLegend-xs9np
      @TheLegend-xs9np 7 лет назад

      Fearr hw do you know

    • @Beyking1234
      @Beyking1234 7 лет назад +12

      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
      @hannahsab5782 7 лет назад +7

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

    • @Beyking1234
      @Beyking1234 7 лет назад

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

    • @hxhuang9306
      @hxhuang9306 7 лет назад +9

      Or, did he? (insert weird BGM)

  • @anony_mouse1
    @anony_mouse1 Год назад +49

    “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

  • @psychic_digit
    @psychic_digit 2 года назад +31

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

    • @aceandson
      @aceandson Год назад +5

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

    • @psychic_digit
      @psychic_digit Год назад +3

      @@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
      @aceandson Год назад +2

      @@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
      @psychic_digit Год назад +1

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

  • @lucaswong4247
    @lucaswong4247 7 лет назад +592

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

  • @rowanbrown5541
    @rowanbrown5541 7 лет назад +132

    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.

  • @mybraineatseverything7404
    @mybraineatseverything7404 2 года назад +7

    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.

  • @jacksonwojnowski2050
    @jacksonwojnowski2050 3 года назад +23

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

  • @MilanTheAngel
    @MilanTheAngel 7 лет назад +575

    For sale:
    Baby shoes,
    never used.

  • @user-vj3jx2ho6x
    @user-vj3jx2ho6x 5 лет назад +16

    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!

  • @sakshamsinghchouhan9453
    @sakshamsinghchouhan9453 Месяц назад +1

    "The robots were caught red-handed", the most happiest words for a poet.

  • @34kbro
    @34kbro Год назад +3

    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.

  • @iamlenamora
    @iamlenamora 4 года назад +5

    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
      @lotovalejnrnanai9505 2 года назад

      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 😉😎🤭

  • @Lucifer-vi2fe
    @Lucifer-vi2fe 4 года назад +52

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

    • @amnakausar9306
      @amnakausar9306 4 года назад +6

      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
      @mari02492 4 года назад +1

      You should publish this

    • @DhrithionVocals
      @DhrithionVocals 2 года назад +1

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

    • @SharkSalesman90
      @SharkSalesman90 2 года назад +1

      That poem is so tragicly beautiful

    • @anupriya9632
      @anupriya9632 2 месяца назад

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

  • @msrainbowmoonfire1802
    @msrainbowmoonfire1802 3 года назад +8

    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.

  • @boldbusiness2575
    @boldbusiness2575 Год назад +20

    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
      @lemoneproductions420 Год назад +2

      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
      @XZA.B Год назад

      Started off confused, ended off feeling smart asf

    • @boldbusiness2575
      @boldbusiness2575 Год назад

      @@lemoneproductions420 agreed

  • @annarelyszayas4060
    @annarelyszayas4060 5 лет назад +66

    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 ;)

  • @paulo25061996
    @paulo25061996 4 года назад +17

    Listen to your heart
    No sound but a void
    A hole but no key
    Even less then empty
    Living in confusion
    And drown in illusion
    Sinking in my own creation
    It is my imagination

    • @mohamedahmedelrouie446
      @mohamedahmedelrouie446 2 года назад

      One year late but this is really good dude/dudette keep it up!

    • @lastravaganza2385
      @lastravaganza2385 10 месяцев назад

      This is actually good!

    • @yamieekh
      @yamieekh 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@mohamedahmedelrouie446 dudette, love it hahah!

  • @abdulmujeebquick4452
    @abdulmujeebquick4452 2 года назад +3

    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
      @SharkSalesman90 2 года назад

      You've got a beautiful understanding of this art.

  • @tantoy5486
    @tantoy5486 2 года назад

    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

  • @Spittingink
    @Spittingink 6 лет назад +4

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

  • @Wisehousepublishingunlimited
    @Wisehousepublishingunlimited 7 лет назад +9

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

  • @journeytopoetry5724
    @journeytopoetry5724 3 года назад +4

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

  • @johnsmith8981
    @johnsmith8981 Год назад +3

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

  • @cakeicingbeartrap7268
    @cakeicingbeartrap7268 7 лет назад +479

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

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 7 лет назад +20

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

    • @rayn2140
      @rayn2140 2 года назад

      Great point mate

  • @noelhaynes9608
    @noelhaynes9608 2 года назад +1

    N. H. II- Peaceful Poems 1-5 and N. H. II- Humble Poems 1-5 are on RUclips, and here is a link to one of the videos:
    ruclips.net/video/Sgi6vbn5Qco/видео.html

  • @digitaldoves
    @digitaldoves Месяц назад

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

  • @erkkalehtonen5107
    @erkkalehtonen5107 7 лет назад +1710

    roses are red
    violets are dandy
    get in my van
    ill give you some candy

    • @jasminsultana8245
      @jasminsultana8245 7 лет назад +8

      zupermiez it was a good poem

    • @saucy2833
      @saucy2833 7 лет назад +63

      zupermiez
      roses are red
      please make it stop.
      I just keep buying
      albums of Kidzbop.

    • @avril3364
      @avril3364 7 лет назад +38

      Roses are red
      Violets are blue
      It appears that
      Jacksfilms viewers are here too

    • @erkkalehtonen5107
      @erkkalehtonen5107 7 лет назад

      Bat Lady of course m8

    • @kemoiii
      @kemoiii 7 лет назад +16

      dude kids these days prefer WiFi.

  • @nancysalas3210
    @nancysalas3210 4 года назад +3

    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.

  • @VictoriaCoachEspiritual
    @VictoriaCoachEspiritual Год назад +1

    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

  • @themeatspot5020
    @themeatspot5020 4 года назад

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

  • @1234Daan4321
    @1234Daan4321 6 лет назад +214

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    I'll go to bed
    Because my paper is due

    • @ilovemusic255
      @ilovemusic255 6 лет назад +6

      1234Daan4321 mood

    • @alto491
      @alto491 4 года назад +4

      Rhyming sucks.
      Freeverse
      Is cool.
      Fite me.

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 2 года назад

      should it not be "won't go to bed"?

  • @esthersantos6599
    @esthersantos6599 3 года назад +4

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

  • @QuirkyGirlCorner
    @QuirkyGirlCorner Год назад

    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

  • @MrclockOFFICIAL
    @MrclockOFFICIAL 2 года назад +2

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

  • @gulnarav98
    @gulnarav98 4 года назад +61

    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
      @comrade6029 2 года назад +4

      wow, that's beautiful :D

    • @skmuskanrahaman1690
      @skmuskanrahaman1690 2 года назад +3

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

    • @hope-.
      @hope-. Год назад +1

      So beautiful!!

    • @o_o1435
      @o_o1435 Год назад

      @@skmuskanrahaman1690 me too i am from Philippines

    • @JaleelJuillet
      @JaleelJuillet Год назад

      @@skmuskanrahaman1690 That was his point exactly…

  • @sithlordbinks
    @sithlordbinks 4 года назад +4

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

  • @SafetyMentalst
    @SafetyMentalst Год назад +3

    Its Faster than the speed of light
    Which can shine threw a pebble
    Can break a Heart of Stone at sight
    That's a Woman's Love for a Rebel

  • @ellehcim.k5449
    @ellehcim.k5449 Месяц назад +3

    A silly wave,
    The loudest laugh,
    A sunny smile,
    but deep, deep down,
    inside my heart,
    I want to cry
    I want to scream and
    i want to shout,
    I feel the walls breaking,
    cracking and shaking,
    failing to contain this overwhelming wave
    of emotions welling up inside my heart,
    I wanna get help but I
    don't know where to start.
    This isn't the best, but thanks for reading lol

    • @kamu747
      @kamu747 Месяц назад

      Very good.
      And I'll say this to you: I started off reading this with a halfway done eye roll, but then the swift change in message caught me off guard, and I could feel that silent dispair. I was touched. Bravo.
      My only critique was the 1st verse. "A silly wave" it's what made me initially biased. But the progression won me over.
      What's the title? Give it a sign it off with your name. Don't let it get lost in this video. Post it online on medium or some poetry blog.

  • @adityakhanna113
    @adityakhanna113 7 лет назад +33

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

    • @Languste
      @Languste 7 лет назад

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

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 лет назад +1

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

    • @Languste
      @Languste 7 лет назад +2

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

    • @andrewwhite1097
      @andrewwhite1097 7 лет назад +7

      Rap is also a form of poetry

    • @gnanay8555
      @gnanay8555 7 лет назад +4

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

  • @cipper7746
    @cipper7746 3 года назад +68

    POV: your teacher posted this video that is part of an assignment

  • @leinardesteves3987
    @leinardesteves3987 2 года назад +2

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

  • @Grainz_music
    @Grainz_music Год назад +6

    The last sentence of the video is hilarious in a post-chatgpt world

  • @darknebulae8037
    @darknebulae8037 7 лет назад +27

    Hey let's put our favourite poem lines in the comment !!!
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference .

    • @internetg1rl
      @internetg1rl 6 лет назад

      now thats my new favorite

    • @franziska9260
      @franziska9260 6 лет назад +1

      Dark Nebulae This is mine, by William Butler Yeats:
      "For to articulate sweet sounds together
      Is to work harder than all these, and yet
      Be thought an idler by the noisy set
      Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen
      The martyrs call the world."

    • @cyooldog3920
      @cyooldog3920 5 лет назад +1

      Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

    • @iloveseattle123
      @iloveseattle123 5 лет назад

      But if it had to perish twice

    • @littlefishbigmountain
      @littlefishbigmountain 4 года назад +1

      You barely put any of it! The meaning completely transforms in context

  • @kalvincarld
    @kalvincarld 4 года назад +9

    I remember my language teacher telling us about a guy who wrote the title "The Emperor's New Sonnet" on a piece of paper
    *_and the rest of the paper was blank_*

  • @divychoudhary9027
    @divychoudhary9027 2 месяца назад +1

    Once we were like two peas in a pod.
    Her voice, an enchanting Nightingale's song,
    Compelled me to nod.
    Her laughter and cheerful, vivid memory were so strong,
    They eroded life's pains and discord.
    But in a moment, everything was gone,
    And I'm still waiting like a moron.
    Without you, nothing feels like home.
    The joyfulness from her presence has gone.
    But I'm still waiting like a moron

  • @user-ci2lg1lw5b
    @user-ci2lg1lw5b 3 года назад +2

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

  • @manoslampropoulos6971
    @manoslampropoulos6971 2 года назад +4

    Poetry is to give soul to things
    and to identify with them emotionally.
    Poetry is a way of life.

  • @bijaykantdubey6055
    @bijaykantdubey6055 3 года назад +6

    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.

  • @Degast92
    @Degast92 2 месяца назад +7

    It is clear that seven years ago, they hadn't heard about the poet Chad Gepeté yet.

  • @ZhiggerA
    @ZhiggerA 7 лет назад +350

    I'm here because of Tupac and B.I.G.

    • @besiprimitif9513
      @besiprimitif9513 5 лет назад +13

      Im a simple man, i see Biggie, i click it.

    • @shashank3589
      @shashank3589 5 лет назад +5

      @@besiprimitif9513 imo tupac, nas and eminem way better poets than biggie.

    • @th3gps223
      @th3gps223 5 лет назад

      ruclips.net/video/CFDUwcU4S9k/видео.html

    • @gs-nq6mw
      @gs-nq6mw 5 лет назад +1

      rythm and poetry

    • @muhammadkhurram3433
      @muhammadkhurram3433 5 лет назад +1

      k cool u bum

  • @mynameishuman9328
    @mynameishuman9328 4 года назад +4

    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.

  • @onkarvigy
    @onkarvigy 9 дней назад

    When a Poem gives itself over to Linguistic resonances both in its creation and recepetion is when Poetry arises. Otherwise it becomes the arena of ideologies. It occurs both at the site of creation and reception(the participation of the author and the audience).
    [By Linguistic resonances I mean , for brevity, that sweet spot of dynamics of words autonomously falling in place mutually evoking awe inspiring psychological states!! I don't want to elaborate more and make it a Task/an essay in itself]

  • @deyontaepatterson5695
    @deyontaepatterson5695 3 года назад

    i absolutely love the use of colour in this video

  • @meloncake7933
    @meloncake7933 4 года назад +10

    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

  • @hamadbakheet815
    @hamadbakheet815 7 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @desirepoem-formybabyangeli1212
    @desirepoem-formybabyangeli1212 3 года назад

    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!

  • @enanaiiz_a
    @enanaiiz_a 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @WeiJian393
    @WeiJian393 3 года назад +3

    Sadness befalls me,
    Love crushes me.
    Under the soul, there's nothing
    To rid of pain, I’ve given up
    I draw
    I draw
    My soul
    My creativity is as fast as a liar's tongue
    The speed that I draw is the speed a cheetah runs
    I draw
    The blood dancing through my veins
    I draw
    The sea of corpses that sinned
    I draw
    My life reaching its end

  • @souravbhowmik2588
    @souravbhowmik2588 4 года назад +5

    Damn man, that narrator's voice is so soothing

  • @2wyth.gbedupoet
    @2wyth.gbedupoet Год назад

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

  • @kalvincarld
    @kalvincarld 3 года назад +1

    I was inspired to write this poem
    Leonora
    I remember the way
    The sun lights up your eyes,
    As we laugh, cry, listen and sigh.
    Dream under the summer skies.
    I remember the days
    We would sing in the wind
    And dance under the rain.
    Behold, the rainbow and the rays.
    The gentle breeze breathes
    On your hair,
    And your fair face.
    Now, I lie in the meadow.
    Smiling, laughing,
    Crying and sighing
    While the flowers say hello.
    The days are long.
    In the wind, I am dancing,
    Singing your favorite song.
    But I am all alone.
    You are just another memory.
    Just another rose.
    Alas, the white rose is plucked
    And laid on a stone.

  • @geralsevilla
    @geralsevilla 7 лет назад +4

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

  • @-cookiezila-461
    @-cookiezila-461 2 года назад +3

    I picked up a slice of
    rich, creamy, sweet chocolate cake,
    and then put it back.
    I'm so proud of myself.
    I wrote this in 5 secs for a friend yesterday. Based on a true story, but don't expect to get emotional lol

  • @radharcanna
    @radharcanna 6 месяцев назад +1

    Funny I was on a train this afternoon and saw something out the window in the gloom that prompted a deep thought. If only I could write a poem to convey it!

  • @FlipStar26
    @FlipStar26 2 года назад

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

  • @sweetlolitaChii
    @sweetlolitaChii 4 года назад +2

    You are, to me, like moonlight
    You're an autumn chill
    After the dreadful heat of summer
    You're the sound of rain
    After gasping from drought
    I reach out my hand
    And sense your charge like lightning through my fingers
    Familiar like coming home
    I speak to you
    And it's morning dew by the river at dawn
    I think of you
    And my body's born of fire
    Your mind deep like a cavern
    Your voice soft and lambant like fireflies
    Your friendship a phoenix born of dormant ashes
    And your soul an old friend found again
    You are, to me, like moonlight
    Immeasurable