Posts Tagged ‘poems’

How To Pen Metrics

May 5, 2011 - 5:11 pm

If you lack to discern how to write metrical composition, the primary quirk you obtain to do is compose some. It doesn’t worry how it turns out. Your own mistakes wish happen to your teachers. Your own expos‚ will motivate you to greater creativity. In the present circumstances, again you start the get ready, how do you correct it? Here are three tips free psychology essays.

1. Use nouns and verbs more than adjectives. Which is stronger: “She was as handsome as a flower…” or “Roses wilted in dishonour as she passed by…”? “He looked at the depressing clouds…” or “He watched as pitch-dark clouds moved in, covering his sky…”?

2. Don’t tell the reader how to feel. Suffer to the words evoke the emotions directly, without explaining. “The catastrophe touched them all,” is more touching to the reader as “Men and women, doctor and workman… thirteen people looked upon the scene… with tears in their eyes.”

3. Advantage impressive and fervent words. Not all words are tantamount in their ability to “seize” a reader or call forth emotion. “Floor,” “surprise,” and “liaison,” last will and testament probably be weaker than “plunged,” “siezed,” and “worship.”

Look at the following lines, written two ways. The second crumple applies the three rules above. (From the poem “Gratitude.”)

1.

The mountains and lakes were charming

I looked at them, heard them and smelled them

And I felt in awe

2.

Mountains be against the inordinately

My little lake at their feet

And in the bull’s-eye of this the cosmos

Which I espy with my eyes

Hear with my ears

Smell and taste…

Words nothing, as they should

I await you consent that the second manifestation is better. Again, if you deficiency to have knowledge of how to inscribe metrics, you give birth to to start writing. Point these and other rules to cure you, but remember that all rules in versification prerequisite to be beaten at times. Infer from your poems aloud to yourself and others as a ultimate “test.”

The Sweet Taste Of Success

December 14, 2008 - 5:03 pm

Writers are an interesting breed of humanity &ndash they can make us feel joy, sadness, anger and empathy. Sometimes they can cause us to feel all these emotions simultaneously.

There are certainly more lucrative methods of gaining an income, yet everyday thousands of individuals will sit down at their keyboard pounding out a story that may never actually be published.

There is a creative energy required to create a meaningful story. It is hard to invest that energy into a story if there is a feeling the story has no chance of success, yet writers will do so.

What motivates a writer to spend their time and talents on something that may bear little fruit?

The answer is found in a quote from author Isaac Asimov, “I write for the same reason I breathe — because if I didn’t, I would die.”

For many writers the reason stems from the fact they have a story in their mind that won’t leave them alone until the story is drained onto the written page only to be replaced by a new story that requires telling. The story might be for the author alone or it might be for a larger audience.

Many writers are not in the market to be famous, they simply agree with the sentiments of Fran

Writing Advice From The Experts Part #1

November 24, 2008 - 10:09 pm

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. - Hart Crane

Some of the best advice for writers in the 21st century comes from those who have seen their successes and offer advice from their own experience. Let’s draw from that brain trust.

On Writing Well

Show don’t tell. - Henry James

Don’t say the old lady screamed — bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain

Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. - Bernard Malamud

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded. - Sidney Sheldon

Don’t mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion — many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. - Stanley Schmidt

On Inspiration

Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O’Hara

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy. - Madeleine L’Engle

If you wait for inspiration, you’re not a writer, but a waiter. - Anonymous

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. - William Faulkner

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. - Agatha Christie

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that’s alive in your heart. That’s the one you have to write. - Lurleen McDaniel

In the second part in this series we will look at a few words of wisdom from authors regarding writer’s Block, motivation and editing skills.

Poetry: An Exercise In Emotion And Vulnerability

September 16, 2008 - 10:57 am

“[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to witness.” &ndash Nathaniel Hawthorne (Journal entry, September 1, 1842)

Most of the greatest poets were not recognized for their work until they had long been laid to rest. Many suffered great difficulties in their personal lives, which may have led the poet to the wellspring from which they drew their words.

It has been suggested that poetry was used in our long distant past as a creative means of passing along traditions and history simply because the poetic language was easy to memorize and enjoyable to recite. The bards in medieval times were renowned for their use of poetry.

From free verse to rhyme and meter, poetry remains a benchmark in the world of literature. The pursuit of poetic markets remains a positive way to further an ancient form of storytelling that requires a special gift while the poet’s emotions are largely exposed.

Poetry is the one element of writing that impacts the emotions of writers more than any other. The vulnerable feel of poetry allows a writer to explore circumstances and emotions in a way that is difficult to do in most writing genres.

Most poets craft their words as a stress release and rarely share them with the world at large, however, there may be markets available for poetry.

It is true that publishers of poetry are about as plentiful as wheat fields in the Arctic, but there are other avenues for your poetry that can allow you to publish your material in unique and memorable ways.

Greeting card publishers are always interested in new succinct poems to share with card buyers. Poems can also be artfully placed on a line of gift merchandise including mugs and artwork suitable for framing.

In our modern era you would be hard-pressed to find someone who is able to make a living writing poetry. However poetry can provide a source of writing income and is often a creative outlet for those who also write in other genres.

It is true there are those who have little appreciation for poetry, yet the poet’s work has brought about significant societal debate and ultimate change in our world. Perhaps this is because the reader is invited to share the writer’s perspective in an emotional way that allows a perspective to be heard with something other than ears.