Ever wondered what how to express your feelings? Ever heard of poetry? If not, then you certainly should.
"There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." These are some quotes from famous people telling what poetry is to them. There are many different poetry types, for example: couplets, cinquain and free verse. In my words, poetry is a way to describe your feelings, and a stack of words that don't even have to have a meaning. They might not make sense to you, but to the writer they certainly do. Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, it only has to be seen by others. When I write a poem, I write whatever I want to write about. Sometimes that is probably the hardest part about writing. Writing poems is definitively not my favorite, and I am not even that good at it, I prefer writing essays and paragraphs but writing poems is something that belongs to life.
One important fact you should always remember, is that poetry has its poetic devices. These include:
Alliteration: the repetition of initial sounds
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds
Imagery: Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses
Metaphor: a comparison between two objects: is or was
Meter: The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Onomatopoeia: The use of words which imitate sound
Personification: A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits
Point of view: the way its seen, 1st 2nc or 3rd person
Repetition: the repeating words, phrases,lines or stanzas
Rhyme: The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words
Stanza: a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in the terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scene.
Simile: A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as : like,as or than.
So practically Poetic devices are just little things a poem could have but doesn't have to have all.
One of my favorite poems is called Forever and Always
I got this poem from :
I chose this as my favorite poem because it kind of has links to my life, and describes how I feel some times. This poem has many rhymes but also makes sense and uses advanced words. So after all, I hope you now understand more about poems, and go on, make your own!
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
"There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." These are some quotes from famous people telling what poetry is to them. There are many different poetry types, for example: couplets, cinquain and free verse. In my words, poetry is a way to describe your feelings, and a stack of words that don't even have to have a meaning. They might not make sense to you, but to the writer they certainly do. Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, it only has to be seen by others. When I write a poem, I write whatever I want to write about. Sometimes that is probably the hardest part about writing. Writing poems is definitively not my favorite, and I am not even that good at it, I prefer writing essays and paragraphs but writing poems is something that belongs to life.
One important fact you should always remember, is that poetry has its poetic devices. These include:
Alliteration: the repetition of initial sounds
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds
Imagery: Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses
Metaphor: a comparison between two objects: is or was
Meter: The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Onomatopoeia: The use of words which imitate sound
Personification: A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits
Point of view: the way its seen, 1st 2nc or 3rd person
Repetition: the repeating words, phrases,lines or stanzas
Rhyme: The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words
Stanza: a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in the terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scene.
Simile: A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as : like,as or than.
So practically Poetic devices are just little things a poem could have but doesn't have to have all.
One of my favorite poems is called Forever and Always
All the bullies coming my way
Getting teased every single day.
Boy do they have nerve,
But I still wonder, is this really what I deserve?
But I was little then,
I just took it all in.
I let them say what they wanted to say,
It wasn't my problem anyway.
All through elementary without a real friend,
Just hoping that wasn't how it would end.
High school came along soon enough,
I guess everyone just grew up.
There was one person who stood out of the crowd
She was like my little sis,
She made me so proud.
But my world got twisted around,
I felt like I couldn't make a sound.
The relationship with my one true friend,
was about to come to an abrupt end.
She was going through so much,
Her good friends losing all her trust.
They'd make fun of her in every way,
Just like they did back in my day.
The way some girls tore her apart,
It completely broke my heart.
To see her get so sad,
made me outrageously mad.
They put her through hell and back
I just kept telling her, that,
"You need to forget about them,
They were never your true friends."
She knew it was true
but could never follow through.
She let them walk all over her again and again,
I was afraid her heart would soon melt.
She does not deserve this, neither did I.
I tell her again and again, I really do try.
I want her to be happy, to be free.
Then maybe I'd be able to leave her peacefully.
She's afraid to be alone, I would be too.
But I know she would be able to pull through.
She is stronger than I will ever be,
That is what I wish she could see.
I try to be that steady person in her life,
To be the only one who doesn't cut her like a knife.
A 1000 miles away, she'll always be in my heart.
I just wish she could make a new start.
When you see me I may look fine,
But every time you turn away I cry.
Leaving you is something I could never do.
And saying goodbye, never to you.
Our time as friends was so little,
but my love for you will never dwindle.
You are more than my little sister,
Just know I'll always miss you!
Getting teased every single day.
Boy do they have nerve,
But I still wonder, is this really what I deserve?
But I was little then,
I just took it all in.
I let them say what they wanted to say,
It wasn't my problem anyway.
All through elementary without a real friend,
Just hoping that wasn't how it would end.
High school came along soon enough,
I guess everyone just grew up.
There was one person who stood out of the crowd
She was like my little sis,
She made me so proud.
But my world got twisted around,
I felt like I couldn't make a sound.
The relationship with my one true friend,
was about to come to an abrupt end.
She was going through so much,
Her good friends losing all her trust.
They'd make fun of her in every way,
Just like they did back in my day.
The way some girls tore her apart,
It completely broke my heart.
To see her get so sad,
made me outrageously mad.
They put her through hell and back
I just kept telling her, that,
"You need to forget about them,
They were never your true friends."
She knew it was true
but could never follow through.
She let them walk all over her again and again,
I was afraid her heart would soon melt.
She does not deserve this, neither did I.
I tell her again and again, I really do try.
I want her to be happy, to be free.
Then maybe I'd be able to leave her peacefully.
She's afraid to be alone, I would be too.
But I know she would be able to pull through.
She is stronger than I will ever be,
That is what I wish she could see.
I try to be that steady person in her life,
To be the only one who doesn't cut her like a knife.
A 1000 miles away, she'll always be in my heart.
I just wish she could make a new start.
When you see me I may look fine,
But every time you turn away I cry.
Leaving you is something I could never do.
And saying goodbye, never to you.
Our time as friends was so little,
but my love for you will never dwindle.
You are more than my little sister,
Just know I'll always miss you!
I chose this as my favorite poem because it kind of has links to my life, and describes how I feel some times. This poem has many rhymes but also makes sense and uses advanced words. So after all, I hope you now understand more about poems, and go on, make your own!
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
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