Sepitro  +  483820 Sun, 02 Mar 08 12:50 AM What is it that make a poem a masterpiece? Is it the combination of style, rhythm and symbology? How would you define a masterpiece? Also, if possible please give examples.  Sepitro Joined on Sun, Mar 2 2008 New Member 02

	Dew 2007  +  483892 Sun, 02 Mar 08 07:34 AM A masterpiece in my opinion is a combination of all the mentioned above, but it also implies the sence. But without the proper structure it won't sound good. As an example I'd like to quote a piece by Rudyard Kipling from If  (sorry if I've changesd something - I write if by memory)   If you can fill the unforgiving minute With 60 seconds worth of distance run. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And what is more - You'll be a Man, my son.  Dew 2007 Joined on Sun, Jun 17 2007 Russia Contributing Member 1,352 Keep wondering!

	Zerox  +  497707 Mon, 07 Apr 08 04:19 PM There's a book called 'Ways of reading'. There is a unit called 'Judgement and value. It discusses why some texts gain the status of 'classic' and how they come to comprise the canon of literature. It's actually quite interesting, although, it doesn't give any correct or right answers as there actually are none, just like Forbes said. Zerox Joined on Wed, May 10 2006 Full Member 295 -It is rational that the irrational contradicts with the rational- Literature

	Jhumjhum  +  498454 Wed, 09 Apr 08 12:51 PM I think there is no particular formula for this.  When a large number of people appriciate it for any reason or for no reason that becomes a masterpiece .   Jhumjhum Joined on Thu, Mar 2 2006 Regular Member 609 It is easier to disintegrate an atom than one's prejudice-Albert Einstein

	Dew 2007  +  508981 Sat, 03 May 08 03:26 PM But in order to be appreciated it should touch the people's souls. And no word can touch a person's heart unless it has a deep meaning. Dew 2007

	Gencebay90  +  512153 Sat, 10 May 08 06:06 PM Poem? It has been discussed what poem is, how it is written and why and for whom it is written for centuries, and a common answer remains to be seen. Poem is just like philosophy; I mean it is relative. You like poems that are written in free style, but I like those with rhyme. In my opininon poem should not be understood easily just like Edgar Allen Poe points out   :) Gencebay90 Joined on Sun, Sep 2 2007 Turkey Junior Member 91 In a corner of every heart is a wounded place Whom

	Dew 2007  +  512305 Sun, 11 May 08 08:02 AM But if a poem is not easily understood that may spoil the pleasure of its perception. Perhaps each may understand it differently. But if it's hard to understand it can't be a masterpiece. Dew 2007

	Gencebay90  +  517893 Fri, 23 May 08 02:40 PM Perhaps the most significant thing that determines the taste of poetry is the difference of culture. For example, I don't find so much taste in any of English or American poems. What you call a poem must, in my opinion, express different things to different people. You may not be able to find anything in a poem that I call a masterpiece   :) Gencebay90