Green
The motif of the green, which appears in “Poets Need Not”, is a representation of the abstraction in poetry. Audiences over-decorate poetry, without bearing in mind that the process of composing a realistic poem, that can “be heard and seen” is gruesome. Coming up with poems that are impressionable and realistic, in the context of the audience’s standards, is an arduous task that is why the speaker, in “Poets Need Not”, argues that poets do not require any laurels, which connotative of over-exaggeration, as they do not “crown" (their poems) with any green which stands for abstract ideas.
Hell
In “Hell for Poets," Hell is a motif that summarizes the impediments that poets go through to have their poems published. The standards for publications such as rhyme schemes may make it impossible for a prose-like poems to be published in magazines. The publishing magazines undermine the poets’ work by likening the poems to prose, especially when the poem do not have rhyming patterns. The rigidity of the publishing magazines hinders poets from commercializing authentic poems that would be highly relevant for the audiences despite not sticking to rhymes and other redundant rules.
