Choose one, learn the basic rules, and do your best to stick to them. There are many types of poems you can write. You have your purpose, subject, related words, and a format. Jot down one line to start. This could end up being your title, your opening line, or your last line. Take a look at the line and see where you think it falls on the spectrum of your idea. If you use the first line as your opening line, simply start adding lines after it. You can fix that later.
One of the best things you can do is put the first draft of your poem away for a day or two. Come back to it and see if you can make any improvements with a fresh pair of eyes.
You may even want to get someone else to read and critique it. Your first poem may not be perfect, or even good. All you have to do is start writing. When the words sound in harmony this creates a para-musical and acoustic effect which is pleasing to the inner ear of the reader, and is called euphony.
Always try to pay attention to the poet's possible use of any similes, metaphors, symbols, images, or unusual turns of speech in the words used. Finding the deeper levels of meaning in the poetic language used in any poem is never a precise science. It is always a very speculative art at best, and one in which you never know for certain that your interpretation is exactly right on.
So, spend some time learning all the literary techniques that could be used by any poet, but in the end, trust your intuition and go with it. What follows is a poem I wrote in which the intended meaning can be found on several different levels below the words used literally in the poem.
Parole By Michael Hickey Skin is such a subtle prison Ill never get accustomed to its walls; Often captivated more by my own confinement, Than the continued trials of innocent bystanders. Sounds very magical to me. Love it btw! Ive been writing poems for a while now. My fathers death brought out feelings I could best express through poems. When I saw you last, I looked in your eyes. You looked so lost and full of fear. All I could do, was wipe my tears. I knew it was over, you felt so alone.
I did what I could for your journey home. I stayed by your side, all through the night. Never leaving you, holding you tight. My memories of you, are close to my heart. Dan, I would say that poems people write in order to express their feelings and to honor and commemorate a specific event in their life fall into the category of doing whatever feels right to you.
This handout is focused specifically on high school poetry, but the general idea addresses using very personal poems in a writing workshop. Rather than TELLING me that your memories are close to your heart, can you instead spend time bringing me along with you as you relive just one really significant event?
Think of how a movie really comes to life when the camera zooms in on a person talking about a memory, and then suddenly we see a younger version of that character living through the events they remembered. Sometimes movies might have the older version of the character there in the scene, commenting, like Scrooge does during the flashbacks the Ghost of Christmas Past shows him.
Poems do something different — they use very specific sensory details in order to conjure up emotions in the reader. But listing the emotions you felt is not the same thing as giving your reader a reason to feel something. This handout on Showing vs. How many modern works use rhyming couplets? Was your baby-blue-eyed father a pound professional wrestler? Were his eyes important to his profession, or to do something he loved to do, or something he did selflessly and reliably for the family?
Vacuuming the stairs, watering the lawn, that sort of thing. Thank you for your input Dennis. This is why I put it out there. I wanted to know how and what I can improve on. Again, thank you! I just found your tips practical for the high school students. I happened to write few poems without knowing how to write.. Thank you for all d informations..
It is very well written article and if followed the correct steps as described above. It can help improve the poetry writing skills a lot. One should pay attention to the following questions. I think a good poet is very good at observing their surroundings. They are able to push these elements of life into creative writing, which can be in the form of poetry.
Poetry also grants us the freedom to add new words to our language much in the way painters add new paintings to museums.
Shakespeare, in fact, is thought over the course of his career to have created nearly 2, new words. Poetry is music in language. For Lewis Carroll as well as many other poets, the sounds words make are just as important as the meanings they have.
Poetry teaches patience. Poets can sometimes take days or even months! Poetry helps us remember. Before language was written down, Greeks and Egyptians used poetry for more than just enjoyment. Poems communicated philosophy, history, religion, and even science.
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