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.