in my opinion art not just poetry is unquantifiable and therefore impossible to measure.
i can't explain why it's just what i think and feel.
of course we can say. "that's a good poem" the trouble with that though is that we is never everyone, if it has to be consensus based then the measuring of poetry fails. who says what the score is along the xy axis. of course the craft of poetry requires work but isn't it fact that at the end of the day all we can say is whether we think it good bad or mediocre poetry, or is every classical poem a ten? surely if you try and measure poetry you can't measure the poet. only their individual works, which i don't think can be done.
i can't explain why it's just what i think and feel.
of course we can say. "that's a good poem" the trouble with that though is that we is never everyone, if it has to be consensus based then the measuring of poetry fails. who says what the score is along the xy axis. of course the craft of poetry requires work but isn't it fact that at the end of the day all we can say is whether we think it good bad or mediocre poetry, or is every classical poem a ten? surely if you try and measure poetry you can't measure the poet. only their individual works, which i don't think can be done.