Ars Poetica. Analysis Paper

Poetry is a beautiful testament to the permanence of human experience, the ideas immortalized by men and women that brim with meticulous language and impassioned purpose. Poetry, beyond the mechanical conventions, is an art form. Archibald MacLeish’s appropriately titled work Ars Poetica, the ‘Art of Poetry’ is a treatise on the standards of poetic art, one which focuses not on its technicalities, but on its soul. Ars Poetica is divided into sections: one each for sensory comparison, lunar simile, and metaphysical truth. These include the many discrete yet profound images that acquaint us with what he believes a poem should be.