Ars_Poetica

Ars Poetica The poem, “Ars Poetica”, written by Archibald MacLeish , can be summarized by its final stanza, “A poem should not mean / But be.” Macleish suggests that a poem is like any other piece of art and should be admired as an image. The image leaves the reader to decide of what the poem means to them through their own experiences. Compared to other forms of poetry, which the author of the poem tries to direct what the reader feels, and the message he recieves. A poem usually is made of separate words and it is often tempting to take meaning from each word itself and not see the words put together as an image. When Macleish says that, “ A poem should be wordless / As the flight of birds,” he says that the poem doesn’t need to give the reader a feeling but like the wind on a birds back the reader’s experience directs them towards a more ars, poetica, poem, words, reader, image, macleish, should, scene, own, williams, wheelbarrow, together, says, red, react, personal, much, lines, itself, feeling, experiences, each, creates, compared, birds, written, wordless, word, wind, wheel/barrow, way, tries, towards, told, through, tempting, take, summarized, suggests, strong, stanza, stand, specific, simply, shown, show, sharp, separate, sense, relate