meet 7 poetry for beginner

8/3/2019 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

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