meet 7 poetry for beginner
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Today is Wednesday
Yesterday was Tuesday, and
Tomorrow will be Tuesday
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My fatherIs an old man who now
Works as a part timeTeacher. I am proud of
Him.
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Wild horses run along.
They are beautiful.
All of different colorsThey are so free.
And in a moment
They are gone
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A new language, a new city.A new friend, a new enemy.
A new school, a new house.
A year passed, and look at me.
I am no new anymore.
This is my life!
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Poetry
A poem is concerned with shaped and controlledemotion.
Poetry is generally more concentrated (than aprose.)
Poetry is talking about more specific andparticularidea.
Poetry is built around images (representations ofsensory experience).
Poetry is an expression of the (connection and)tension between self and the world, andaccomplishes this connection in a more intenseand rhythmicway.
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Poetry
Poetry is an intense exploration of languagewhich seeks to uncover new ways of describingthe world around us.
A poet demonstrates his/her creativity inexploring the words to create/build/presentimages through a combination of the soundsand rhythms of words.
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Poetry Writing Tips
Show, dont tell
There is a small, cute cat that seems very sad.Its mother has just died because it was struck bya careless driver. I think the world is not fair forthe small cat (Narrative)
Cute-eyed cat gazing at lonely street
Wishing a fairer world indeed
Sorrows and fear mingled, as tears make river
Reckless drunk driver snatched her mother(POETIC)
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Do/Present more (ideas) with less (words)
The man and his wife are really a good couple. Bothare able to adapt to different situations.
They are matched chameleons.
Consider rhythms, rhymes, and line breaks
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Compare with similes and metaphors
His thoughts were like clouds passing a clear blue sky.Your smiles are my morning birds.
Create vivid imagery
How will he hear the bell at school,Arrange the broken afternoon,
And know how to run across the coolGrasses where the starlings cry,Or understand the day is gone?
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What Should I Write About?
Write about what you know about: yourwork, your family, your hang-ups, yourhobbies. Keep your eye on the subject, write
without worrying what anyone thinks. Think about something special or unique to
the subject (My mother was a good mother
vs. My mother told me how a spider showedher the mystery of the world)
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What about Form?
Poems are breath-maps. They use punctuationand line-endings to show you how to reach andkeep some of the air's invisible energy.
Everyone has his own way of singing out thebreath. Everyone has her own voice and youshouldn't take instruction from somebody else.
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Ideas that may help you to write
poetry
Think about something special or unique tothe subject
List some descriptive words which mayprovide some clear information about yoursubject to the readers.
Try to create pictures in the reader's mind.Your aim is to elicit the readers imagination
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Bind the words and ideas together. Connect
them by the use ofrhyme which will provideyour poem with better sounds .
Get some rhythm into your poetry: the
number of lines, the number of syllables ineach line, and line breaks.
Usepatterns of sound: using alliteration andassonance, repeating words,
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Creating better Sounds:
Repeat words: new friends, new language Rhyme words: away,.day
Use alliteration: birth before beginning
Use assonance: shoutedout proud
Figures of Speech (examples):
Simile: The wind galloped like a stallion
Metaphor: Peace is sunrise
Personification: The leaves gossiped among themselves Hyperbole: His hands were so dirty the soap run and hid