Nudging the Muse to Speak with Your Pen

Creative Writing Lesson Four

Poem of the Day• http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/179.html

• “Bike Ride With Older Boys” – Laura Kasischke• What sensations does this poem give you?

Journal Entry #5

Element 5: Rhythm and Other Effects

• Five popular sound effects in poetry:– Repetition– Onomatopoeia

• Words whose sounds imitate their meaning (Murmur)– Alliteration

• Identical consonant sounds» “But when loud surges lash the sounding shore”

– Assonance• Repetition of identical vowel sounds

» “Excellence is in millimeters not miles”

– Rhyme

Finding the Muse

• The genius of a writer– To become a good writer, one must write

continuously – Able to expound on any and every subject

Assignment

• Practice writing poems.

– The following slides contain pictures in which you must write a poem about.

– Rules:• One poem must rhyme• One poem must not rhyme• One poem must be a haiku (5 syllables in the first line, 7 in

the second line, 5 in the last line) – modernhaiku.org• One must be a prose poem

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