Art Poetica (Quintus Horatius) Poem by Xelam Kan™

Ars Poetica” (“The Art of Poetry” or “On the Nature of Poetry) a treatise or literary essay on poetics by the Roman poet Horace, published around 18 or 19 BCE. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC –8 BC) , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words.

A very interesting poem, so brilliantly written with great panache!

A well composed poem and a great message for the emerging poet. You are something, excellent write Gulsher

great write... thank you for information and guidance to new poets..!

Artistic Gulsher. You have done extremely well to convey the rules of a great literary giant of Augustus age in your poem. Yes I believe these the requirements of poetry and should be practiced by all those who want to be true poets. I wish I practice them as much as possible. Thanks for taking our attentions toward that creative and natural poet. I am sure poetry is something special and there is no style to poetry. the style belongs to poets. I loved the way you have created your poem and the title chosen is well described in the poem. Compose well or don't rhyme either.................................................. A very strong statement. Well done

I'm glad to find someone else who appreciates Horace. I have Walt Whitman for excitement and Rilke for visionary scope. But Horace is that model poet who was also a model human being. I re-read his four books of ODES in a formal translation two years, but this summer I'm re-reading them again in very free translation by contemporary poets. Horace is uniquely the poet of friendship - the best people bringing out the best in each other. That is high praise for a man who lived THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS long before Jefferson coined the phrase.

lovely poem. i enjoyed..

jahan zeb writes in a comment below that: .... I am sure poetry is something special and there is no style to poetry. the style belongs to poets. i guess that makes me feel better (ha ha) that i do not try to imitate other poets. i enjoy writing mine and hope some readers will enjoy them also (many are funny, or try to be, but not all of them) . if not, that is ok (but i KNOW some readers like some of them....and thank you for telling me so) . as for G.j.'s poem: .... i DID like it. i DO wonder how well the author takes Q.H.'s advice to heart; i'll probably never know as i don't plan to read Q.H.. but thank you for the poem and the offer to learn more about poetry from an ancient? source. i especially liked the lines: .... To attain brevity and avoid obscurity To Him was the key for poet`s security, Devised the rules for versification, And forbade Mediocrity and blind imitation, That could Spoil all the pure fancies and romantic pulsations. rhyming in poems is one of the features i enjoy most, and i like the construction and message of the lines......though i may not follow Q.H.'s advice. thanks for sharing another one G.j. bri

Nice poem :) go on my friend

I see. Great poetic eulogy of d classical ones. Ars poetica itself. Im so against blind imitation töo. Pls do coment on mine latest too.