creative writing: poetry

NO

Getting inspired

Experiencing emotions

Imagining a story

Mastering language

YES

Looking for inspiration

Understanding human

psyche

Construct a story

Defamiliarizing language

Creative Writing =

• Choosing a topic

• Using sensory language

• Describing details

• Engaging readers

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of

powerful feelings: it takes its origin

from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

- William Wordsworth

Haiku

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Acrostic Poem

Limerick

A bather whose clothing was strewed

By winds that left her quite nude

Saw a man come along

And unless we are wrong

You expected this line to be lewd.

Concrete Poetry

T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.

Dramatic Monologue

Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid

"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!

Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?

And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?" —

"O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she.

— "You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,

Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;

And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!" —

"Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she.

— "At home in the barton you said thee' and thou,'

And thik oon,' and theäs oon,' and t'other'; but now

Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!" —

"Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she.

• Ode

• Elegy

• Epitaph

• Ballad

• Romance

• Pastoral

• Sonnet

• Hymn

• Lament

Slam