WRITING POETRY

Poetry explodes beyond mere words, transforming into a vibrant canvas where poets, like
artists, wield language as their brush. They meticulously craft each line, evoking emotions,
painting vivid imagery, and sparking thought. Poetry leaps with metaphors, dances with
rhythm, and bares its soul through vulnerability, inviting readers to explore the intricate
landscape of human experience.
Review on figures of speech and other literary devices

 A figure of speech is created when a writer uses figurative language or that which has
another meaning other than its basic definition. It makes an idea or image easier to
imagine or generally more interesting.
Examples:
1. Alliteration 12. Onomatopoeia
2. Antithesis 13. Oxymoron
3. Apostrophe 14. Paradox
4. Circumlocution 15. Personification
5. Epigram 16. Pleonasm
6. Hyperbole 17. Pun
7. Irony 18. Simile
8. Litotes 19. Synecdoche
9. Euphemism 20. Understatement
10. Metaphor 21. Foreshadowing
11. Metonymy 22. Imagery
Paraphrasing in and to poetry

Paraphrasing in poetry is like retelling a story in your own words while preserving the
essence of the original meaning. You're aiming to capture the heart of the poem, but
with a fresh perspective and your own unique voice.
How to Paraphrase Poetry
1. Read Carefully
2. Identify Key Ideas
3. Break it Down
4. Consider Tone
5. Don't Change the Meaning
6. Experiment with Language
 Important Notes
1. Respect the Original
2. Credit the Poet
3. Don't Oversimplify
Paraphrasing poetry is a personal and creative process. There's no single "right" way
to do it. The most important thing is to engage with the poem, understand its meaning,
and find your own way to express it.
Modern poetry forms
1. Free verse
A free verse poem is a poem that doesn't rely on any particular form, meter, or rhyme
scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas. Rather than letting a certain
structure define the poem, the poet lets the poem structure itself through the interplay
of language, sound, and literary devices.
 Example
After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman
AFTER the Sea-Ship--after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves--liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface
2. Acrostic
An acrostic poem is a poem in which certain letters of each line spell out a word,
name, or phrase when read vertically. Most often, it's the first letter of each line that
spells out the word, but they can be placed anywhere on the line. When they're placed
elsewhere in the line, it forms a kind of hidden 'code'.
 Example
Emily
Easy in manner, elegant, refined,
Modest her looks, accordant with her mind;
In beauty clad, with sober sense entwined;
Loving unselfishly her kin and kind,
Yet to her own rare merits ever blind.
3. Cinquain
Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables
distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet,
Adelaide Crapsey.
 Example
angels
kind beyond words
they protect and forgive
and make feelings of blissfulness
cherubim
4.Diamante
The diamante poem, or diamond poem, was created by Iris Tiedt in A New Poetry
Form: The Diamante, published in 1969. It is an unrhymed seven-line shape poem.
 Example
Cat
Proud, Assured
Stalking, Sleeping, Watching
Feral, Tortoiseshell, Calico, Persians
Running, Jumping, Playing
Soft, Little
Kitten
 The subject of the poem is in the first line. It is usually a noun. It is then followed by two
adjectives, then some verbs (action words), more nouns, verbs, adjectives, and then the
second subject (opposite or antonym).
5. Concrete poems
Concrete poetry is a kind of writing that focuses on the shape words make on the
page. Often, the visual impact of the poem is more important than the text itself.
 Example
Easter Wings
George Herbert
Lord, who created man in wealth and store,

Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poor:
With thee
O let me rise
As larks, harmoniously,
And sing this day thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.
My tender age in sorrow did beginne

And still with sicknesses and shame.
Thou didst so punish sinne,
That I became
Most thinne.
With thee
Let me combine,
And feel thy victorie:
For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
6.Senryu
senryu, three-line unrhymed Japanese poetic form structurally similar to haiku but
treating human nature, usually in a satiric or ironic vein. It consist of
17 syllables (also called morae) divided over three lines in a 5-7-5 pattern, though
these guidelines were less strictly followed as time passed. Senryu is named after
Karai Hachiemon, one of the best known proponents of the form, whose pen name
was Karai Senryū (or simply Senryū, which means “river willow”).
 Example
Brilliant words flowing
From those never knowing, how
many lives they touch....
- Connie Marcum Wongs

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Poetry explodes beyond mere words, transforming into a vibrant canvas where poets, like

Review on figures of speech and other literary devices

Paraphrasing in and to poetry

Stalking, Sleeping, Watching

Feral, Tortoiseshell, Calico, Persians

Running, Jumping, Playing

Lord, who created man in wealth and store,

My tender age in sorrow did beginne

- Connie Marcum Wongs

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