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How-tos for all things poetry; learn how to analyze a poem, construct a haiko, differentiate between a metaphor and simile and more.
How to Read a Poem
Inquisitive with regards to verse, however don't have the foggiest idea where or how to start? We've republished the main section from the book How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch. Its 16 segments give techniques to understanding sonnets, and each segment has a lot of connections to instances of sonnets in our file to represent the focuses.
By Cheikh Cisse3 years ago in Poets
How to, write several poems or stories from one idea?
I read a prompt about hair and decided to create a number of poems based on the prompt. Over the course of one day, I thought up five different ideas. Each idea is from a different perspective. Here is the method I followed to create multiple poems from one basic idea.
By Warren Brown3 years ago in Poets
“Found Poetry”-
What is a Found Poem? A found poem is another interesting poetic form that is quite popular. In this form, the poet usually picks few words or lines or paragraphs from numbers of different sources. These sources can be news article(s), book(s), poem(s), magazine(s), novel(s), social media and so on. You are allowed to add/delete words to these borrowed phrases to give them a different meaning and form a new poem of yours.
By Swagatika Kar3 years ago in Poets
Poetry Gives Me the Freedom to Express Myself with Words
Since this month, I am so much more in fond of writing poems. I discovered so many more – to me – new poetry forms, from Japan to Italy to Nobodies-Land. I am so excited to discover all of them, and put all my creativity, emotions, feelings and thoughts into them and publish them, letting you know about it. Sharing these things makes me happy.
By Agnes Laurens3 years ago in Poets