Summer Workshop 2016 (Completed)

♠ Session #5 | Poetry

AYYYYY WASSUP? ! Y'ALL THINK YOU CAN WRITE POETRY? ! I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN'T! NOW LISTEN UP WHILE I, A TEENAGER WITH NO PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN POETRY, GIVE YOU ADVICE. BEGIN.

*Ehem* I mean:
Welcome, participants of this workshop, to our very humble session this week which is on Poetry, I am sure some of you do enjoy this literature art very much and this week, we will help you improve on it. Enjoy.

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There are many different types of poems. Some examples are haiku, sonnet, ghazal, and free verse.

Different poets have a different style of writing but coming down to the basics, they are all very similar. Each has a flow, a rhythm, a pattern, figurative devices and meaning whether it is hidden or direct. But one of the most important elements all poems have in common is emotion.

You need to be able to feel the emotion while writing it so that it is present while reading it.

Now just because you have to write based on your emotion, it doesn't mean you have to write ABOUT your emotion. For example:

I'm angry at my sister
Because she beat me at Twister
Now I'm gonna twist her
Until she's really injured

While that is... something, it's not exactly poetry as it is rhymes. You need to channel your anger and make it abstract so that the meaning is deeper and actually touches you.

My view is clouded, all I see is red
As if all the hatred has finally bled
My thoughts are unclear, uncertain and troubled
This clouded view has left my mind in struggle

Poetry is not just a string of
abstraction; doesn't mean "deep" and image doesn't mean "picture."

Images are usually understood as anything you can literally touch/taste/see/hear/smell, and abstractions are those things for which we have symbols (a clock for "time," a heart for "love") but no image. Abstractions and images may fill our poems, but how can you tell what's what?

In this workshop, one poem has to be written using 3 images and abstractions. It can be any style of poem, that depends on you. This will be due August 5th, 2016.

Most of us think of simile and metaphor, personification and other similar figures of speech as being about similarities between objects, concepts, and entities. But the juice in these formulas comes from how different the two things being compared seem to be. This is why writing: "the shark moved like a fish" is, alone, a lot less interesting than saying "the shark moved like a squad car."

For this activity, one poem will be written with 5 different examples of simile, metaphor, and personification but it has to be as creative as possible. This will be due August 5th, 2016.

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So... this one is pretty short, I apologise, I'll get better at writing these with time. We hope you enjoyed!

A MAJOR SHOUT OUT TO @hurri-cane!! YOU'RE AWESOME!! Not to say that the others aren't, y'all are amazing too! (I need to be more professional, this session is so gonna he edited by @Tulsi107 after she kills me) THANK YOU EVERYONE!