{"id":150,"date":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/writing-assignment-form-poem\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:13:11","slug":"writing-assignment-form-poem","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/writing-assignment-form-poem\/","title":{"raw":"Writing Assignment: Form Poem","rendered":"Writing Assignment: Form Poem"},"content":{"raw":"<strong>Directions<\/strong>\n\nWritie a poem that follows a specific form. You may write it in first-person point of view (I, me, my, we, us, etc.) or third-person point of view (he, she, it, they, etc.) Here is a list of poem suggestions:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Write a Shakespearean sonnet like William Shakespeare's poem \"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day. Compare someone to something in nature.<\/li>\n \t<li>Write a Shakespearean sonnet about a fear you have like John Keat's did in his poem \"When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be.\"<\/li>\n \t<li>Write a villanelle about death like Dylan Thomas' poem \"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.\"&nbsp;Remember you have to have good repeating lines for a villanelle to work.<\/li>\n \t<li>Write a villanelle about an inanimate object like Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem \"The House on the Hill.\"&nbsp;Remember you have to have good repeating lines for a villanelle to work.<\/li>\n \t<li>Write a concrete poem like George Herbert's poem \"Easter Wings\" or like E. E. Cummings' poem \"In Just.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nYou get the idea, right? Brainstorm a list of your own ideas, a variation of one of the above, or use one of the above ideas.\n\n<strong>Show Don't Tell<\/strong>\n\nRemember to use specific nouns and strong action verbs. 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Brainstorm a list of your own ideas, a variation of one of the above, or use one of the above ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show Don&#8217;t Tell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember to use specific nouns and strong action verbs. Remember to use your senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell.&nbsp;Remember to include literary devices like assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, meter, end-line stop, enjambment, caesura. Of course, poets use less words than fiction writers, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Line Breaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow the traditional line breaks and format that most free-verse poets use. 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