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The Art of Poetry Writing

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Poetry can be described in so many ways, but one general concept
people have about poetry is, it stems from an emotion, an
inspiration, or from a particular event in the poets life. Poetry
is an art form that uses metaphors to express a certain thought
or story.

While telling the tale as it is can be easier understood, poetry
is not into expressing one definite meaning, but rather into
making the reader think and determine for themselves what the
writer may be trying to put forth. The artistic use of words to
represent something is else is common in a lot of poetry writing
styles and is viewed as the norm by most poetry writers. Poetry,
however, is basically indefinable and this may be due to the
multiple writing styles available to the art.

People who write poetry for the first time usually write from
the top of their heads. This means, once inspiration hits them,
they write down whatever they felt during that inspired moment in
the simplest possible words that they could use. While this does
not make for good poetry writing, this could be very well the
base for a good poem.

Like all books and other reading material, poetry can only
improve with rereading and some rewriting. Some of your emotions
from that inspired moment may have been expressed accurately
enough for you, however, to help it transcend into art, some
careful scrutiny and deliberation may be needed to further
complete your work of art.

While certain words may be accurate enough for the writer in
terms of expressing the emotion they are trying to convey, this,
however, does not ensure that the poem is good.

Here is where metaphors come into play. You can use certain
comparisons to how you feel by pairing them off with things and
happenings around you. For example, if you are feeling sad, you
do not just write in your poem that you are feeling sad or there
is sadness in you.

Try to find a phrase that can encompass what you feel without
being too direct so as to leave the rest of the thinking to the
imagination of your reader. A good comparison to the word sad
would be dark or darkness. Another possible word you can use
would be deep or depth.

These two word choices may not be totally negative or describe
the word sad if taken all by itself, but combined with a few
other words, you can artistically portray the feeling of sadness
in your poem.

Not all poems are expressions of sadness and negativity,
however, despite there being quite a number of them being created
and having been created. This is not surprising since sorrow is a
very strong emotion and writing can be quite an outlet for this
feeling. Anger, as well, has found an outlet in putting pen to
paper, along with confusion and even hate. More positive feelings
are also common fodder for the poet, with the astounding number
of love poetry that is available making this apparent. Other
stronger emotions often used for poetry include happiness, and,
well, the other predecessors and by-products of happiness.

Whatever the inspiration a person has for writing a poem or
poems, poetry is indeed a literary art form that is, as
indefinable as it is, something that a lot of us can do well,
with a lot of feeling and some practice.

One of the rather useful tools to better yourself at poetry
writing is your basic thesaurus. It offers you quite a few
choices in terms of word selection to further express what you
feel in your writing.

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