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 one's head throug

h 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, "Let poetry be like a key opening a thousand doors" (Huidobro 1-2), thus translating that poetry should not only target one emotion or a singular audience but offer a slew of options to the mind after it is read. Reading Huidobro's statement in line one, one can clearly see that it cries out to all poets for them to initiate, to all, a sense of diversity in their poetry. Whether it is in meter, rhyme scheme or just content, every aspect of a work should arouse many different thought trains to cause one to ultimately arrive at a consistent translation running parallel to the content of the poem. He then goes on to state that a poem,

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