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How To Write A Poem Using Figurative Language
Using the figurative language adds human touch to words. While it makes prose more interesting, it sparks a lucid image in poetry.
A word is most effective when used with care. A polished poet uses the right denotation (dictionary or factual meaning) and connotation (figurative or suggestive meaning) of words.
The figurative language is woven by the poet from the stock of experiences, knowledge, and zeal she deals with everyday, in and out of her world. Through the senses, she relates words with pleasure so the readers could feel, hear, see, smell and taste.
Way back in high school, my English teacher (Miss Jose) asked, "What's a cloud like?"
"It is like a cotton ball," I answered. Until now, that scene is vivid to me dealing with similes and metaphors.
See this example.
A simile is a comparison with the use of as or like.
That is: A cloud is like a cotton ball. It is soft as a cotton ball. It is white as a cotton ball.
A metaphor is an implied comparison without as or like.
That is: A cloud is a cotton ball. It is soft and white.
Among others, other symbolic devices are personification, metonymy, hyperbole, and allusion. It will depend how you would interpret your words and make them alive.
Here is my own poem, as an example.
I Will Write In Your Heart
I will whisper in your ear, all your heart yearns to hear.
I will write in your heart, all your mind wants to remember.
I will weave in your body, all you dream about love.
I did the poem using implied metaphors.
Literally, the ear is for hearing. The word whisper is appropriate for soft cuddling with a lover. The heart literally, can't hear sounds, but it does feel unspoken words. When you love someone, you feel the beloved in your heart. Here is acceptance.
I will etch. I will write in your heart, literally, is bloody. Blood is a sacred pact. It comes with a covenant. The mind is very intelligent; hence, people are specially created by God for his Kingdom. The heart is over mind here, only to offer what is most beautiful for the beloved. The mind will be programmed to remember the beautiful things because of that sacred love. An endless love like that of the Sacred Heart, roots from God's words all over time.
I will weave in your body, all you dream about love. How do you weave? You intertwine threads. You lace colors. You merge juices.
My friend asked me, "How would you do that?"
I answered, "By kneeling... "
Also, I got mixed feelings in this poem. I used "synesthesia" as a device (in Greek, it means perceiving together). When I had this poem, it just came out quickly like press, zoom, and send!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Tips For Keeping Notes While Writing Creatively
Tips For Keeping Notes While Writing Creatively
By Rosalinda Flores-Martinez
When I write fiction or nonfiction, I make sure I use my notes on my journals and those texts I have marked on books.
It is true that you can never be a good writer if you have not read widely.
In writing, you cannot spark inspiration if you are not passionate in your work. You would write dull as when you wake at dawn with no urges and kiss without fire. Yet, if your muses are up all the time as good work habits, your work will stand the test of time and tide.
Here are some tips.
Mark your books. This is a way of interacting with the writer and the texts, especially while writing creatively. (See articles online "On Marking Books")
Rewrite forceful statements and relate them spontaneously with your own thoughts.
Reread your old notes or journal entries. Get those that could suit the topic.
Explore new words. Writers are word lovers. They make their own (informal) definition of words.
Consult the dictionary and Thesaurus.
Sleep with your notes. Focus on a topic of your interest and expertise.
Try new ways of writing your texts in different forms like poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction.
A good exercise for your stock of notes is the prose poem which is popular this age of new media. Among others, save your texts messages, emails, blog entries in a notebook, disc or drive.
See this example.
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
My notes as follows:
"Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns and even convictions.
The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky without a speck was a benign immensity of unstained light, the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and brilliant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores of diaphanous fold."
I got these texts to arouse my muses. I don't know what I will be writing, but just to keep what hit me inside I find attractive. I believe writers are gifted to get the materials they need, and as such, they need to feed on ideas. Also, what to say, what not to say, and what to reveal between the lines come vital in keeping notes for creative writing.
From the notes above, I wrote this prose poem.
Seconds
Losing grip of love affair, I hold thin folds of time like tongues of cookie layers on the shores of white sand and white sugar in the tub. Draping darkness lulls I to sleep, tired I, rolling side to side like benign beatings on low shores. Timepiece of earth, one heart of day and night, up radiant sky, the yin and yang, cloud cookie smiles and crossing slice of brilliant sun rays grip our sweat of rain in secs.
/iwrotefiction.rosevoc2
It is true that you can never be a good writer if you have not read widely.
In writing, you cannot spark inspiration if you are not passionate in your work. You would write dull as when you wake at dawn with no urges and kiss without fire. Yet, if your muses are up all the time as good work habits, your work will stand the test of time and tide.
Here are some tips.
Mark your books. This is a way of interacting with the writer and the texts, especially while writing creatively. (See articles online "On Marking Books")
Rewrite forceful statements and relate them spontaneously with your own thoughts.
Reread your old notes or journal entries. Get those that could suit the topic.
Explore new words. Writers are word lovers. They make their own (informal) definition of words.
Consult the dictionary and Thesaurus.
Sleep with your notes. Focus on a topic of your interest and expertise.
Try new ways of writing your texts in different forms like poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction.
A good exercise for your stock of notes is the prose poem which is popular this age of new media. Among others, save your texts messages, emails, blog entries in a notebook, disc or drive.
See this example.
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
My notes as follows:
"Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns and even convictions.
The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky without a speck was a benign immensity of unstained light, the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and brilliant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores of diaphanous fold."
I got these texts to arouse my muses. I don't know what I will be writing, but just to keep what hit me inside I find attractive. I believe writers are gifted to get the materials they need, and as such, they need to feed on ideas. Also, what to say, what not to say, and what to reveal between the lines come vital in keeping notes for creative writing.
From the notes above, I wrote this prose poem.
Seconds
Losing grip of love affair, I hold thin folds of time like tongues of cookie layers on the shores of white sand and white sugar in the tub. Draping darkness lulls I to sleep, tired I, rolling side to side like benign beatings on low shores. Timepiece of earth, one heart of day and night, up radiant sky, the yin and yang, cloud cookie smiles and crossing slice of brilliant sun rays grip our sweat of rain in secs.
/iwrotefiction.rosevoc2
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