Introduction to Creative Writing: Writing Poetry

2. NO
Getting inspired
Experiencing emotions
Imagining a story
Mastering language
YES
Looking for inspiration
Understanding human
psyche
Construct a story
Defamiliarizing language

3. Creative Writing =
• Choosing a topic
• Using sensory language
• Describing details
• Engaging readers

4. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings: it takes its origin
from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
- William Wordsworth

6. Haiku
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

7. Acrostic Poem

8. Limerick
A bather whose clothing was strewed
By winds that left her quite nude
Saw a man come along
And unless we are wrong
You expected this line to be lewd.

9. Concrete Poetry

10. T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Dramatic Monologue

11. Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?" —
"O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she.
— "You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;
And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!" —
"Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she.
— "At home in the barton you said thee' and thou,'
And thik oon,' and theäs oon,' and t'other'; but now
Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!" —
"Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she.

12. • Ode
• Elegy
• Epitaph
• Ballad
• Romance
• Pastoral
• Sonnet
• Hymn
• Lament

13. Slam