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What Poetry Should Do
Published by Ytrail, July 8, 2010
These are some of the elements I think all poetry should contain in order to make it more interesting, unforgettable, and elegant.
- Without imagery my poetry is weak and sound cheap
- Should express your feelings of emotion and state your opinions
- It’s good to add setting (place, time, and weather) and location description to your poetry because it makes it feel more real as if you were actually there with the person describing it
- Listening to specific music that compliments the mood of the poetry also helps with writing it
- Having a reference or watching a video that relates to your poetry or what is about also makes it easier to write it
- In poetry you can say whatever you want out of your mind, think of it as having the freedom to write whatever you want in a creative way
- Metonymy is a figure of speech in which an attribute or trait (characteristic) of something is used to stand for the thing itself such as “crown” for “royalty”
- Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which the word for the “part” (attached to it) is used to mean the whole such as “hands” for “people” or vice versa
- Thus, “The White House said” would be a metonymy for the president and his staff, because the White House (A) is not part of the president or his staff (B) but is closely associated with them. On the other hand, “20,000 hungry mouths to feed” is a synecdoche because mouths (A) are a part of the people (B) actually referred to. More info here.
- Use big and fancy words to enhance it’s elegance
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