Poetry

All writing has a specific structure. A text message, for example, is concise and may contain slang, an email often follows the same format as a conventional letter, and an essay is written in paragraphs. These structures contribute to the overall message or meaning of the writing. Poetry is no different. Poems are a collection of literary work that is...

In order to get the full gist of how imagery works, especially in poetry, let’s consider the words of Naomi Shihab. She said— as a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headlines news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and...

Are you a poem lover or love to write poems? Then you must read this article. There are a lot of parts in a poem, and this article will discuss an important part, that is a poetic foot. It is important to understand the feet and their use in the poem. Poetic feet are created by the number of syllables...

Simply put, a poems pattern is, ‘the accurate arrangement and development of material (in both visual and aural form) components of words in specific repetitive or serial forms are a means to create a poems structure.’  Through a mingling of elements from sound and visual, a poem is given its structure. Traditionally, poetry has only concerned itself with the sounds...

When you hear the word ‘meter’ in relation to poetry, what is being referred to is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllabic patterns in a particular verse, or in the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables are typically longer than their unstressed counterparts. Meter is a literary device used in poetry that acts as a linguistic sound pattern for...

Simple Steps to Writing Poetry Writing a poem includes the following three steps: Step 1: Starting the poem Do some writing exercises. It involves finding out inspirations for your poem by using the world around you. A poem might start as a line or two lines that seem to have no source, as a snippet of a certain verse or an...

Poem writers regularly use sound in order to boost and improve their poetry. Below are a few of the sound techniques that poets often use to develop mood, tone and imagery. Rhyme Scheme Writers of poetry organizes words that rhyme in a number of different patterns, known as rhyme schemes. Whenever rhyming words occur at the end of a line...

If you are new to writing poetry, there is a strong likelihood that you spend most of your time making sure that each line rhymes. But, rhyme isn’t the only device that can be used to make sure that a poem sounds as good as it can. In fact, it isn’t even specifically necessary that a poem rhymes at all....

Scansion in poetry simply means to separate the poem (or a poetic form) into feet by segmenting the different syllables based on length. Scansion is also frequently referred to as ‘scanning’. Scansion describes a poems rhythm through things how lines or verses are broken up into feet, indicating the existence of syllable patterns (stressed or unstressed), counts and meter. Here...

The origin of the word poetry is taken from the Greek word poiesis, which translates literally to mean ‘making’. Poetry is a type of literary work that calls upon the aesthetic and rhythmic elements of language – like sound symbolism, metre and phonaesthetics – in order to arouse meaning or to create imagery through words. Simply put, poems are a means...