What Makes a Poem Good?

Today @colerooty spends 20 minutes trying to explain where contemporary poems falter and the classics shine. He talks about a great many poems over the course of the video. The twist? It was all for nothing. Here is a list of paintings I used: Early 1900s Landscape Oil Painting On Canvas, Unknown Willow tree by the lake, Ferdinand Hodler, 1890 De molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1670 The Magpie, Claude Monet, 1868-1869 The Dream (The Bed), Frida Kahlo, 1940 Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer, 1503 Man, shaving, François Verheyden, 1842 Miranda, John William Waterhouse, 1875 Winter Night in the Mountains/Winter Night in Rondane, Harald Sohlberg, 1914 Wow. That was a lot of paintings. And poems. And poetry. Interesting stuff man. Interesting stuff going on in this little corner of the net.