1. How would YOU answer this question?
What is art?

2. Is this art?

3. Is this art?

4. Is this art?

5. Is this art?

6. Is this art?

7. How did you decide? Let’s look at criteria for making a decision: Size
Color
Fame
Is it in a museum?
How was it drawn?

8. How would you answer THIS question?
What is poetry?

9. Is this a poem? old pond . . . a frog leaps in water’s sound
Matsuo Bashō

10. Is this a poem? r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r E. E. Cummings
  r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r who a)s w(e loo)k upnowgath PPEGORHRASS eringint(o- aThe):l eA !p: S a (r rIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs) to rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly ,grasshopper;
E. E. Cummings

11. Is this a poem?
The Road Not Taken \ Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference

12. Is this a poem?
I Love Cheese

13. What is poetic license?
The liberty taken by an artist or a writer in deviating from conventional form or fact to achieve a desired effect.

14. How did you decide? Grammar Language Shape Dialect Form Fame Prestige
Comprehension

15. Can we really define…
…what a poem is?