The poet, Ezra Pound, once said when talking about a poem’s image, “It is that if you set two things side by side the produce not only each other but something else in reaction of the two together that you need not have connected links all the time in art and poetry.

            When I write poetry I usually break the lines by sound and thought. The lines need to be separated in a way that both breaks and unites and breaks the poem. I’ve been told that the length of the lines is divided in that of the length of a breath. Poetry lines can show different topics or the same, yet the reader know they are somehow connected. The best way to know how the lines should be cut is to listen to them. Read the poem with the proper pauses. Your ears will pick up the musical tune of the poem, or they will not. If the poem doesn’t sound musical or pleasing to the ears, your lines are definitely off. The sound will tell when the poem is right. Another thing that is important in poetry is people tend to pay the most attention the beginning and end of the lines. Making the most sense of the lines to convey the point of the poem is important too. Once the sound is right, and it is linked so it helps convey the story, most of your work is done. There are other steps, but in my own bias opinion these are the most important.