Creative Writing

Quarter 1 – Week 4:
Writing a short poem applying the
various elements and literary devices
exploring innovative techniques
 What I Know

Directions: Using a mind map, present what have you known about Creative Writing and how will
you use your knowledge in writing outputs in Creative Writing. Do this on your answer sheet.

CREATIVE

WRITING

What’s In

Learning Task 1: Identify Your Writing Preferences

Directions: Knowing your writing preferences will help you be more successful in your
writing process. To determine your idiosyncratic writing preferences, answer the following
questions on your paper:

1. When do you like to write? Where do you like to write?

2. What writing tools (paper, pens, pencils, laptop, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) do you
need to write a document?
3. What genres do you prefer to write? Why?
4. How do you write your first draft? Are you a think-write writer or a write-write writer?
5. What stages of the writing process do you use? Which are your strengths? And which
are your weaknesses?

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 What’s New

Learning Task 2: Fill Me In

Directions: Using your answers from the previous learning task, accomplish the writing
process cycle. Also, write your initial understandings that will be enhanced after taking the
lesson. Do this on your paper.

1. ________

5. ________ 2. ________
The
Writing
Process

4. ________ 3. ________

What Is It

Tips in Creative Writing – Writing a Poem

Knowing that after taking this module, you will be writing your own well-crafted poem
considering the elements, techniques and devices presented. You have also to decide the
form of the poetry, the diction, tone and other essential elements that you have learned in the
previous modules.

Learning how to write a poem is debatably one of the hardest forms of creative writing
to master—there are so many “rules”, but at the same time, no rules at all. (Kidder, 2019)
Despite the challenge, writing poetry is a very fulfilling creative venue, and we have
exactly what you’re looking for to learn how to nail this art form.
Because poetry is so specific to the artist, knowing how to write a poem in your own
way can be tricky. Kidder had given several benefits of writing a poem.
Benefits of Learning How to Write a Poem
Even if you aren’t looking to become a full-time poet, or even attempt to publish a single poem,
writing poetry can be beneficial in several ways.
One, It fortifies your abilities recorded as a hard copy strong symbolism. Verse is a very picture
based type of composing, so rehearsing verse will improve your symbolism in different
structures also.
Poetry is concise and impactful because it uses strong language that is not literal.
Connotation is mostly used in writing a poem. Elements are being associated to attain the
aesthetics of the piece.

Poetry helps you to incorporate your thoughts, feelings and emotions in an effective way.
Other forms of writing have the plot to hide behind—with poetry, all you’ve got are emotions.

You can become a professional poet and earn a living writing. Even if you just want to
enjoy poetry for the above reasons, you can also make a full-time income this way.
Fundamentals for How to Write a Poem
Poetry can often be subjective. Not every poem will speak to every person.
That being said, there are different attributes that you should learn if you want to know how to
write poetry well regardless.
Select the form of your poem
The structure of a poem can refer to many different things, but we’re going to discuss
some different forms of poetry, how to use punctuation, and last words.

Form of a Poem
The form of your poem is the physical structure. It can have requirements for rhyme, line
length, number of lines/stanzas, etc.
Here are different types of poetry forms that we have discussed in the previous module:
Sonnet – A short, rhyming poem of 14 lines
Haiku – A poem of 3 lines where the first is 5 syllables, the middle is 7 syllables, and the last
is 5.
Acrostic – A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that fits with the theme of
the poem or exposes a deeper meaning.
Couplet – This can be a part of a poem or stand alone as a poem of two lines that rhyme.
Free verse – This type of poem doesn’t follow any rules and is free written poetry by the
author.
Most of the poets have explicitly less experienced ones, compose what's called free
stanza, which is a sonnet without a structure, or with a structure the writer has compensated
for that particular piece.
The writer may choose to have a specific rhyme conspire or may make their sonnets
syllabic. With a free refrain sonnet, you can set up any topic or example you wish, or have
none by any means. The extraordinary thing about verse is that you can even beginning with
a particular sonnet structure, and afterward decide to adjust it so as to make it special and
your own.
Poetry Punctuation
Writing a poem is difficult because you never know what the appropriate punctuation
is, because it can be different from punctuation when writing a book.
This means you use punctuation properly for every grammar rule; if you removed the
lines and stanzas, it would work as a grammatically correct paragraph, and this even includes
writing dialogue in your poem. Moerover, it implies you use accentuation to serve the manner
in which you might want the sonnet to be perused. A comma shows a brief delay, a period
demonstrates a more drawn out respite, a scramble demonstrates an interruption with an
association of contemplations. Utilizing no accentuation at all would loan to a surged feeling,
which you may need. Your accentuation decisions will rely upon your objectives when
composing a sonnet.
Sealer of your poem
The last word of a line, the last word of your poem, and the last line of your poem are
very important—these are the bits that echo in your reader’s head and have the most
emphasis.

The use of the imageries

The use of imagery as a literary device in your writing consists of descriptive language
that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature
and also add symbolism to the work. Imagery draws on the five senses, namely the details of
taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound. Imagery can also pertain to details about movement or
a sense of a body in motion or the emotions or sensations of a person, such as fear or
hunger.Using imagery helps the reader develop a more fully realized understanding of the
imaginary world that the author has created.
Taste: The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his
youth.
Sound: The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.
Sight: The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged
with pink and gold.
Smell: After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.
Touch: The tree bark was rough against her skin.

The association of Sound Devices

The use of the auditory effect on your piece will also give aesthetics to your piece not
just the physical outlook of the piece but also on how to sound it when the reader reads the
piece. It gives additional impact to the reader and let him to remember it. The use of figures of
speech like Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, rhyme and rhythm will
surely help you to utilize siund aesthetics well.
Tell and Express the feelings
Structure, imagery, and sound work together to make up the technical excellence of a
poem. But if your words are empty of a deeper meaning, what’s the point in writing a poem at
all?
“Poetry is a form of storytelling. The key to writing is making the audience feel. Give them
something to remember and hold onto.” – Brookes Washington
Numerous new scholars lock onto buzzwords and tired points (peep that similar
sounding word usage) for their sonnets, since they imagine that is what they should do. In any
case, copying something another person has done, or some thought of what you should figure
a sonnet ought to be about, won't give you a certified, passionate piece that others can
interface with. So compose the sonnet that no one but you can compose.
Considering at your own experiences will help you to establish your thought s and
emotions. What do you know? Since your experiences may be the first sources of your
concept, it will be easy for you to tell and share. Where could be the writers of stories and
poem, composers of songs get their thoughts? As you learn in literature that personal
experiences could be the substantial source of concepts. As a writer, all you need to do is to
transfer the concepts into words. Can you make that feeling an image other people can see
through your words? That is the poem you write.

Do not be so ordinary, be unique to standout

There are many clichés you want to avoid when writing poetry. Nothing really marks
an amateur poet like clichés. The temptation, avoid cliché phrases. Go line by line and make
your language as crisp and original as you can. If there are pieces in your poem that seem
like you’ve read or heard them before, try to reword it in order to make it more original.
If your poem seems long-winded to you, imagine what that would be like for your
reader. Be ready to edit your poem to get it down to its best form.
“Poetry is just word math. Every piece has mean something, and there can’t be any extraneous
bits otherwise it gets confusing. It just becomes a puzzle made out of all the words that make
you feel something.” – Abigail Giroir

Enhancing your poem using the Writing Cycle

The genuine enchantment of verse occurs in the reexamining and refining. Amend the
ever-living hell out of it. To summarize an old educator of mine: Don't be reluctant to sit with
it. For a considerable length of time, months, years—as long as the sonnet needs.
It's incredible to have composing objectives and courses of events, yet don't surge a
sonnet before you know it's prepared.
Avoid abstractions. A word that can just allude to an idea or feeling—it is anything but a
solid, unmistakable thing. A few instances of this are freedom, love, servitude, hostility.
Reflections make each individual picture something other than what's expected, so they are
powerless words, and they will debilitate your sonnet.
Rather than utilizing a reflection, consider what symbolism you can use to pass on that
feeling or idea. Freedom can become chains breaking or winged creatures flying. Love can
be acquiring your life partner espresso bed, petting a canine, cleaning a headstone.
 Think about the best pictures to pass on your concept of that deliberation, so every
peruser can be on the same wavelength with you.
Try not to categorize yourself into a structure that will smother your inventiveness, use
symbolism and sound, have an importance and a reason for each sonnet, and change until
your fingers drain.

Questions: Which of the following tips in writing of a poem do you really

consider? Can you follow these tips in writing your own poem?

What’s More

Learning Task 1: React with the Literary Pieces

Directions: Go back with your previous literary pieces that you have searched for in the
previous module. Choose 1 and react with the elements used by the author. DO this on your
notebook.

Elements of Poetry Title:

Structure
Sound Devices
Essential Elements
Poetic Form
Figures of Speech
Imagery

Learning Task 2: Read and Give

Directions: Read the following lines of different literary pieces. Give the appropriate title of the
literary pieces considering the content, theme, and message of the poems. Do this on your
answer sheet.
Title Content of the poem
1. Once I failed,
Everyone feels disappointed
When I did mistake
by: It seems like, I’m in the end
Lovely Jaime Thus, I can't stop asking myself
Why is this happening in our environment?
Why do some people, full of judgement?
In this world, that no one's perfect
All of us are different
Has their own version, skills, and talent
We have weaknesses and strengths
We got failures and achievements
So you, me, and all of us
Can be the version, we wish to have
We may live a life we dream
 With contentment, acceptance, love and not a fear
Therefore, I have realized
I shouldn't let anyone dictate my life
No matter what other talked about me
I will always show the real me, that I wanted to be
2.

3. Everyone is magnificently beautiful,

You and I are beautiful,
by: No matter what other say,
Rafael We are gorgeous in our own way.
Gonzales
Hey pretty!
Don’t you ever feel that you are not perfect,
Cause God makes no mistakes,
He made us beautifully.

There is nothing wrong with you,

Putting labels are just people do,
Insecurities, doubt will kill,
But confident and trust makes you steel.

Go around along the crowd,

Show them that you got a crown,
So hold your head up and go far
And shine like a bright star.
4. by: Seeing the blue sky,
Mary With birds flying in the air.
Vianney It was relaxing.
Batan

5. As you walk away

by: Left my broken heart in vain
 Mary Jade And I heard you say
Dondonay Let go, sorry for the pain
Move on, forget me my love

Learning Task 3: Analyze the samples

Directions: using the poems in the previous learning task 6, do the analysis of the poems by
commenting on the elements presented on the table. Do this on your answer sheet.

Elements of Poetry 1 2 3 4 5
Structure
Sound Devices
Essential Elements
Poetic Form
Figures of Speech
Imagery

What I Have Learned

Learning Task 4: “T-M-L Phrase

Complete the following phrases.
The Topic was about
______________________________________________________________________
It Matters because
______________________________________________________________________

I’ve Learned today that

______________________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

Learning Task 5: Be Inspired by Reading (to be done for two weeks)

Directions: Read some of the existing poems in various resources. It may be found in the
internet, existing literature books, newspapers and other reading materials or even your own
created poems before. Appreciate the elements used by the poet for you to use it in
accomplishing the next learning task.
 Learning Task 6: Outline by using the elements (To be submitted next week)

Directions: With your learnings with the different tips in writing a poem, Do the outlining or
planning of your poems to be written. Do this on your answer sheet.
I. Theme:
II. Poetic Form:
III. Kind of Stanza:
IV. Meter:
V. Sound Devices:
VI. Imagery:
VII. Figures of Speech:
VIII. Message:
IX. Target Audience:

Assessment

Writing Time! Directions: Write two poems considering the elements, literary devices and
techniques presented in the previous module and your understanding in writing a poem. You
have the freedom to choose and utilize any of the elements, forms and other essential topics
about poetry. Do this output in a short bond paper. You may be creative in presenting your
poems. You will be guided by the rubrics in grading your outputs.
Note: This will be submitted next week.
You have two weeks to create your poems.

POETRY WRITING RUBRICS

Excellent Average Poor

(5 points) (3 points) (1 point)

Cohesiveness The poem goes perfectly The poem somewhat goes The poem does not go
together. There is unity together but needs more together. The poems lines
between lines and stanzas, cohesiveness. The poem’s and stanzas sway from the
which connect with the topic. lines and stanzas sometimes topic.
sway from the topic.
Use of poetic The poem uses 3 or more The poem uses 1 or 2 poetic The poem uses no poetic
elements poetic elements to enhance elements but they elements.
the poem and the reader’s sometimes distract the
emotions. reader.
Rhythm The poem uses rhythm The poem sometimes uses The poem does not have any
throughout, which benefits the rhythm but may waver in a noticeable rhythm.
poetic tone. way that distracts the reader
and negatively affects the
tone.
Creativity The poem uses 3 or more The poem uses 1 or 2 The poem does not use
unique metaphors and similes unique metaphors and unique metaphors and
to describe situations, objects, similes to describe similes.
and people. situations, objects, and
people.