ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Ars Poetica from The Norton Introduction to Literature at page 728. The reason that I chose this poem to accurately expresses my view of what poetry is, is because the beautiful rhyme and tons of metaphor of what poem should be. For example; “A poem should be palpable and mute”, “A poem should be motionless in time”. Those metaphors put poem in many different forms let people think deeply what poem really is? Also, the author made parallel rhyme for each lines to express speaker’s emotion, We should read this poem like a lyric poetry feel what the speaker want to express by reading it out loud with your emotion. In my point of view, the feeling I get from this poem is all about love, the love of poem. “A poem should be wordless