Let's talk a little more about POETRY!

Welcome back to the Blog Poets and Creative Writers.  As you will remember from our last session here, we were discussing Poetry and the various elements involving writing good poetry.  We're going to pick back up where we left off...

Poetry orchestrates its music, arguments, tensions, and environment via arrangements of language into lines and stanzas. The importance of line break is a topic that every poet should be familiar with. With that in mind, the question that you were asked to answer when we were last here . . .

The question for every Poet is this: Do you break more for sound, for sense, for visual effect, for shape, or for a mix of several of those reasons?

What was your answer?

Is it sound on which you base your poetic line breaks?

If so, then we need to think about how Poets use sound in a variety of ways to enhance their poems. Here are some examples of sound techniques Poets use to create mood, tone and images...

Rhyme Scheme:

Poets organize rhyming words in a variety of patterns called rhyme schemes. End rhyme is the rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry. Internal rhyme is the rhyming of words within one line of poetry.

Repetition:

Repetition is the recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase, or a line. Repetition can be used to appeal to our emotions, create mood, and to emphasize important ideas.

Alliteration:

Alliteration is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds. The tongue twister, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” overuses alliteration.  Alliteration is easy to use, but it is a challenge to use it well when writing poetry.

Assonance:

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.

Consonance:

Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words, not just at the beginning.

Onomatopoeia:

Onomatopoeia is the use of words that create the sounds they describe. Words like buzz, hum, clank, and crash represent a sound.

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Was your answer to the question -- Sense?

Here are the 5 Senses:

 Smell - What can we smell?
 Taste - What can we taste?
 Touch - What can we feel?
 Sight - What can we see?

 Sound - What can we hear?

As an exercise in relation to the Senses, you can take for example, any of the following subject matters . . .

 A season
 A food

 An emotion

Then use any of the 5 senses to write a Poem.

Sense Poem Examples:

Basic sense poem
Love smells like roses
Love looks like red hearts
Love sounds like birds tweeting
Love feels like soft fur
Love tastes like chocolate

Detailed sense poems:

(Season)
Autumn smells like bonfires and rain
Autumn looks like fireworks exploding brightly in the sky
Autumn sounds like leaves crunching under my feet
Autumn feels like the chilly wind and snuggling under a blanket
Autumn tastes like hot chocolate and Halloween sweets

(Emotion)
Happiness smells sweet like birthday cake
Happiness looks bright like the sun
Happiness sounds cheerful like my mum singing
Happiness feels lovely like a big hug
Happiness tastes yummy like sausages

Detailed and rhyming sense poem
Chocolate smells like heaven so sweet,
When I have it, it is such a treat.
Chocolate looks like shiny brown wood,
I'd eat it all day if I could.
Chocolate feels like a piece of silk,
Glossy and smooth like a glass of milk.
Chocolate sounds like twigs going crack,
When I snap a bit from a brand new pack.
Chocolate tastes like a delicious dream,
If I don't get some, I may scream!

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The above gives you an idea of line breaks involving "sound" and "sense".  We will come back here to continue our discussion on line breaks involving the areas of visual effect, and shape. 

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We'll also discuss two other meaningful terms: "Abstractions" and "Images". What do those terms mean to you Poet? Come back here to find out more!

Peace, Love & Light,

 René

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