Ars Poetica

Horace's "Ars Poetica" offers insights into Roman drama and poetry by emphasizing that works should delight and instruct, merging aesthetic beauty with practical insights. He advocates for...

In Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica," the poet uses similes and paradoxes to convey his beliefs about poetry. Similes make the poem appear "dumb," "motionless," and "equal," aligning with MacLeish’s...

The dominant figure of speech in "Ars Poetica" is the controlling metaphor, where a poem is likened to timeless and universal objects. These comparisons suggest that poetry should evoke meanings...

The poem has a variety of metrical forms, including trochees and anapests, shorter lines and longer lines. The first line is written in iambic pentameter, but it is the only iambic pentameter line in...

In Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica," the couplet "A poem should be wordless / As the flight of birds" symbolizes the irony of expressing poetic ideas through words while advocating for poetry's...