how do you learn to write poetry?

Answer 1

i learned it from school, but the emotional level is the experience i have in life. Listening to songs, and watching the world around me. look up a style you want to use on the web. i learn the types of poems at school

Answer 2

Pick Up a Copy of Writers Digest
The magazine that's the best
For budding writers to learn
Whatever writings you yearn
Or thing of doing.. maybe a story
Or maybe some simple poetry
Read study open up your eyes
And soon you will realize
Poetry is an easy thing to do
Soon find when sad feeling blue
You might find poetry a thing to do

Answer 3

I don't think that there's really a way to learn to write, whether poetry or anything else.. Writing is something that gets better the more you do it, so the best way to learn to write poetry is simply to write what's on your mind or in your heart.

Writing is ultimately a form of self-expression, and words are simply the vehicle to carry your thoughts from the internal to the external world.

Keep writing, and everything will fall into place.

Answer 4

I first learned to rhyme. Vocalizing thoughts as they come up. I used to do some real bawdy little bits off the top of my head when something struck me funny. I then put them into writing and began serious reading. In Junior H.S., er, ah, Middle school for you younguns today. Our English teach had us memorize poetry! I memorized Tree, I think that I shall never see a thing as lovely as a tree. Lol!!! My 4 year old G-daughter wants to learn it.

Read, read and read more.
Write, practice and bounce things off a kindred spirit.
The learning curve is great the task not easy
To write poetry to be adored. (Good Grief!)


For poetry is expression from the heart

Answer 5

One learns to write poetry through exposure to some of the poets of the ages as well as poets of our times. If one reads a lot of poetry with the objective of learning what the poets are attempting to communicate, one learns how to say things in unusual, beautiful, and florid ways, yet communicate one's intention. An idea that holds merit is reading poems in other languages, understanding from those the necessity of rhyme and equally important how to hold the attention of the reader without rhyme. There are many tools of the trade such as slant rhyme, eye rhyme, alliteration, etc; if you have written some poems, you will often find that you have used these devices of creative writing without being aware of them. Once you learn them, however, you can employ them judiciously in your writings.

In creative writing classes, one is often encouraged to decide upon a subject, write 30 words related to the subject, 15 short
phrases, and 12 descriptive sentences related to the subject. With this information and a vivid imagination one can scrape together the beginnings of a readable poem. I cannot overemphasize the important of reading a lot of poetry in order to understand the structure and function of language as it is used in poetry. Always check spelling and usage carefully and remember, it is always important to tell a story and think logically and systematically.

Answer 6

>Read a lot of poetry.
>Brainstorm.

To rhyme:

>Find words that are somehow related that rhyme.
>Use the easy rhymes first. Don't use "emulated." Use "you." And remember that similar endings work, too.
>Start with short stanzas and easy rhyme schemes, then move on to more complicated ones.
>Use imagery if you are trying to write beauty. Also, if you want to add an extra syllable, add an "Oh" or "O" or "Ah" to the first of the line.
Or, if you don't want to rhyme, just
>Write something beautiful in prose, and
>Cut it into lines. There are beautiful ways to connect lines.

This second way is much easier and slices the amount of time poetry-writing takes.

Answer 7

First and foremost, READ it.
Anyone can write onandonandonandon about their feelings, butterflies, bluebirds, death, depression, and the abyss...but is it poetry?
What makes poetry different from prose is its density. Each and every word must be absolutely essential to the work of the poem.
Take for example the word "beautiful"...what does that word mean? Well it means different things to different people, so in essence it isn't specific enough to tell you anything; it doesn't work hard enough to be in a poem.
If you want to write poetry start reading, and start your reading with Richard Hugo's "The Triggering Town."
...that said...it's a big world...you can write what ever you want to, and you'll find someone who likes what you write...but is it poetry...

Answer 8

Poetry isn't what you learn. It's what you know.
You may write about the leaves on the trees,
swaying and rustling as the wind passes by,
You may write about the birds in the sky,
soaring elegantly through azure clearness,
You may write about the air conditioning whizzing,
the coolness blowing in from a plain gray machine,
You may write about whatever's on your mind,
It's not what you learn, its what you know.
Or don't know.
You can write in stanzas and rhyming schemes,
with alliterations and similes, metaphors and using figurative language,
you can check out a fieldguide on the art of words,
but the best, the most innocent poems, come from within.

Answer 9

OK let me try to explain while i answer the question poetry style man here it goes

to write poetry its like to dream about life
the life of your future
see you cant think the future you can only see the future
the future u cant predict you just let it come by
like poetry you cant really ask how to write
you gotta write whats on your mind
cause the mind controls the body
the body shows your style the style of who you are
so to say this u cant ask but u can think and write
whats in your heart

i wrote that off the top of my head good luck peace

Answer 10

,,,poetry,,,is like a simple writing,,,with just some twist in it,,,you just write what's on your mind and put a little rhyme on it,,,it is really essential for to know lots of words,,,cause most of the time when I make a poem,,,I just ran out of words to write so I suggest before you start writing you first list the words that are related to your chosen topic,,,these words should be a little difficult and hard to understand to make your poem a little more interesting,,,