Some unwritten rules about poetry: 1-Although rhythm, assonance,

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Some unwritten rules about poetry:

1-Although rhythm, assonance, alliteration (the whole question of musicality, and even rhyme, when it comes to rhyming poetry) are important, and although the feeling or idea that the poem communicates is a valid and significant thing, it is the metaphor and the imagery the greatest aspect of poetry. Young poet, above all other things, work on your imagery.

2- Having in mind the rule nº 1, it must be said that you can produce good poems without using metaphors, but if you do not master this tool and use it frequently in your literature your work will lack much of what is most beautiful in poetry, and therefore you will be a minor poet.

3-Only poets who bet everything in the musicality of their verses will actually lose all their value in the translation. Poets who make use of an inventive, effervescent, strange and original language: poets who use metaphors and new ways of seeing the world (who see strange combinations of things that were alien before): such poets will be valued and read and cause brain amazements and chills in the marrow even in translation.

4-The story-teller poet, the one who writes epic poems, or plays (in short, the poet who creates characters and plots) will always be celebrated and valued and read much more than the lyric poet.

5-A poet that can only be appreciated in its original language and lose everything in translation is undoubtedly a minor poet. An example: Pushkin (even if the Russians insist on his god-like powers).

6-Ideas, philosophies, beliefs, messages: all these things are inferior to language when it comes to poetry. A poet who mastered the language (and especially metaphor and imagery) that writes a poem about a flea would have produced a more meaningful poem than a mediocre poet who produces a poem about freedom, universal love, or a poem proposing a new philosophy.