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Nudging the Muse to Speak with Your Pen

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.

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Nudging the Muse to Speak with Your Pen

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  1. Nudging the Muse to Speak with Your Pen Creative Writing Lesson Four

  2. 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?

  3. Journal Entry #5 • If you had to identify one thing destiny probably held in store for you, what would you say it is? • Focus on personal accomplishment in your lifetime rather than relationships, marriage, children, etc. • “What will become of me when I am older?” - DM

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 • http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5787

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