Non rhyming poetry is meant to be a type of poetry that doesn’t try to rhyme. Rhyming poetry is poetry where an effort is made to achieve rhymes within the structure, or more formalised make up of the poem. Free verse is a form of non rhyming poetry that has become more popular during our ...
Imagery Imagery is an important tool in poetry. When you hear the term imagery, you might think of visual images. Imagery, however, can and should involve all five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. Language that describes things we can see, hear, smell, touch, or taste is known as concrete language. Good poetry is ...
What constitutes good poetry differs from person to person, and what one reader might enjoy, another will not. Judging a good poem is very subjective. Basically, this means there is no way to truly determine what ‘good’ poetry is, but there is a way to tell if poetry is ‘bad.’Poetry, more than any other type ...
The blog is an incredible tool for human communication, showing the world many different emotional angles from gossip to the sharing of personal treasures and triumph, but a poetry blog incorporates writing talents in a new way. Each facet of a poetry blog is an amazing utterance of being, the rambling of a coursing writer ...
What’s wrong with using clichés in poetry? Well, it’s boring. Who wants to read something they’ve heard a hundred times before? Good poetry is original. It often surprises readers with new and interesting images or ways of looking at things. Clichés don’t do that. Clichés can be useful in normal speech as a kind of ...
In William Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” he describes good poetry as the spontaneous overflow of emotion. He goes on later, however, to describe how the poet must train his emotions through much reflection and deep contemplation. Wordsworth describes a true poet as one who uses language that is common to everyday people; the poet ...