nudging the muse to speak with your pen creative writing lesson four
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Poem of the Day• http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/179.html
• “Bike Ride With Older Boys” – Laura Kasischke• What sensations does this poem give you?
Element 5: Rhythm and Other Effects
• Five popular sound effects in poetry:– Repetition– Onomatopoeia
• Words whose sounds imitate their meaning (Murmur)– Alliteration
• Identical consonant sounds» “But when loud surges lash the sounding shore”
– Assonance• Repetition of identical vowel sounds
» “Excellence is in millimeters not miles”
– Rhyme
Finding the Muse
• The genius of a writer– To become a good writer, one must write
continuously – Able to expound on any and every subject
Assignment
• Practice writing poems.
– The following slides contain pictures in which you must write a poem about.
– Rules:• One poem must rhyme• One poem must not rhyme• One poem must be a haiku (5 syllables in the first line, 7 in
the second line, 5 in the last line) – modernhaiku.org• One must be a prose poem
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