Because the medium differs from stories, poems allow you to express things differently. Use them to brainstorm ideas. Make your words work. Even more than the short story , poems have limited words and we need make our words work hard.
Make you think differently about words. Poems make us re-evaluate words and think of new ways to manipulate language. Make you evaluate each word, because of the condensed nature of a poem we have to spend even more time evaluating our word choice.
Allow you to say exactly what it is you want to say. Actually, a dialog of one is a monolog, not a dialog. Although I realise I am being overly pedantic and probably compeltely missing the point. It builds your brain. It's therapeutic. That tool you've developed is versatile. It encourages deeper intrapersonal relationships. You are opening yourself up to a wealth of human knowledge By writing, you are doing the legwork in understanding other poets.
You can unsubscribe anytime. About the Author Henrik Edberg is the creator of the Positivity Blog and has written weekly articles here since Click here to learn more…. Comments on this entry are closed. Is it a good time to be doing this with the state of the economy? Writing can help you cope.
Instead of keeping your emotions bottled up, writing helps you get them out into the open and deal with them. That can help you feel less alone.
Try taking part in National Poetry Month , the worl'd's largest poetry celebration, to feel connected to other poets in your community. Reason 5. Poems can help you see the world differently. One thing that can turn a good poem into a great poem is adding details. That means attentions are shrinking and focus is altering. With character communication on Twitter, picture and visual postings on Pinterest, and classrooms shying away from difficult material in favor of easy reading and easy grades, poetry has become one of the most underutilized, and underestimated, mediums in modern culture.
In poetry we find the magic of metaphor, compactness of expression, use of the five senses, and simplicity or complexity of meaning in a few lines.
In the minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems , poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again. Click to continue. Poetry helps by teaching in rhythm, stringing words together with a beat helps cognitive understanding of words and where they fit. Additionally, it teaches children the art of creative expression, which most found highly lacking in the new-age educational landscape.
Writing, speaking, and understanding can all be greatly influenced and nurtured by the use of poetry. Learning rules for writing, and then breaking them with poetry, can give writing alternative beauty. Speaking poetry aloud with its beat, rhythm, and rhyme can loosen the tongue and craft a firm foundation for verbal communication.
Learning to understand poetry also gives the mental fortitude, as well as the drive, to understand written communication an invaluable trait in business, from my perspective. Have you ever sat there and not known what to write? Picking up poetry, reading through different excerpts from classic poets can blossom ideas you never knew existed. Reading and writing poetry makes you think of new ideas, but can also dramatically change the way you perceived old ones. It is a way to process experiences, visual descriptions, and emotions.
Poetry is typically short, but largely emotional. Writers get in touch with sentiments they might not have known they had until it was down on paper. Depression and anxiety are among the top two mental illnesses being treated with Biblio-therapy, and through poetry, one can start to understand the hindrances and blocks being formed around their mind.
Expressing how one feels is difficult. For those who have a harder time expressing themselves, reading poetry can have a similar positive effect as writing it. Reading poetry allows one to see into the soul of another person, see what is weighing on their minds and on their hearts, and can open doors to feelings that are sometimes suppressed until that door is opened.
Reading can shine a light on all those dark and hidden crevices of the heart and mind once thought permanently closed off to the world. Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than poetic forms, including more established poetic forms like sestinas and sonnets and newer invented forms like golden shovels and fibs.
By design, poetry is broken into short, but strategic sentences. By doing so, writing and reading poetry makes one understand the significance of every single word and their placement. Sometimes, without a single word, it can change the entire rhythm and meaning of the poem itself.
Writing poetry forces the person to consider, and reconsider, each piece and length of their verses.
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