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Summary: A poem can be defined as an idea, a feeling, a group or rhymes or even lines of words on a page. Write a poem with tips from a writing instructor in this free video on writing.
Laura Minnigerode is a writing instructor and former classroom teacher. Her teaching experience includes public and private schools, as well as writing workshops for adults and...read more
"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshops.com. And I'm going to talk about how to write a poem. A poem can be defined as an idea, a feeling, a tightly composed group of rhymes; lines or words on a page. I think the most important thing when you're writing a poem is just to think about it as your ideas, your feelings. A poem is a very compact form of writing. It's, it's, it's expressing a lot in a few amount of words. So when you're writing a poem get your ideas out, get your feelings out then take a step back. Go back and revisit it, edit it. Make sure that each word is doing the work that you want it to. If there's a word that you don't need take it out because the most tightly written poems are the, sometimes the most effective. The next thing you want to do when you write a poem is think about ending it with, with a different thought or almost a surprise ending. A lot of poetry can be very powerful when it ends with a twist or a thought that the reader wasn't expecting. I think the last thing about writing poetry is just to revisit it a final time and make sure that the feeling that you get is the feeling that you had in mind when you began. So whether that's having someone else read it or just reading it over yourself give it a final edit and make sure it's expressing exactly where you were starting from. And those are some ideas about how to write a poem."
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