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Enhancing Creativity - Exercise #2 (Poetry)
Don't get scared off from this exercise just yet, because this is poetry. Poetry is apart of writing in more ways than you might imagine. Infact, poetry can enhance your creative writing skills. As you might expect, famous writers throughout history, such as Edgar Allan Poe, have taken advantage of this aspect.
To start off, we must first look at what poetry is and isn't:Poetry is...
- Poetry is a set of words made up to create rhythm.
- Poetry shows emotion through many different senses.
- Poetry does NOT have to rhyme.
- Poetry does NOT have to be in sentences or even have correct grammar.
- Poetry does NOT have to tell a story.
There is a type of poetry for just about anything you can imagine. There are many different rhyme schemes, meters, stanzas and other visual tools at the hands of poets. And if that isn't enough, there is freestyle.
However, this exercise will look specifically at one form of poetry, haiku, described as three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, usually about some form of nature. For purposes of this exercise, lets not worry about whether or not the poem is about nature, but concentrate on the rhythm and keeping within the formula, 5 7 5.
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