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Peer reviewedHolmes, Stewart W. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1996
Suggests that composing "haiku" requires a discipline in a person's thinking and emoting patterns similar to that of a general semantics system for training people to make sense. Describes how such haiku are written and gives some guidelines to help individuals create their own. (PA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Figurative Language, Haiku, Literary Genres
Behn, Robin, Ed.; Twichell, Chase, Ed. – 1992
Based on the idea that poetry, like any art, is best mastered through practice, this handbook for poets combines poetry-writing exercises with personal essays by each contributing poet. Some of the poets represented in the handbook are: Maxine Kumin, Rita Dove, Roger Mitchell, Carol Muske, Sydney Lea, and J. D. McClatchy. The exercises in the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Figurative Language, Poetry, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedMiller, Judith – English Journal, 1989
Discusses how to assess student poetry, focusing on the qualities of internal logic, tone, music words, figurative language, stanzas, line length, space, detail, voice, and "life." (MM)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Figurative Language, Literary Devices, Poetry
Oliver, Mary – 1994
Intended to impart the basic ways a poem is constructed, this concise handbook is a prose guide to writing poetry. The handbook talks about meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense, iambs and trochees, couplets and sonnets, and how and why this should matter to any person writing or reading poetry. Interspersing history and analysis with…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Literature, Figurative Language, Poetry
Grell, Jane – 1994
Serving as an ideal entry point for children to self-expression and creativity, these participative poems by a storyteller blend the bounce and rhythm of Caribbean memory with universal aspects of childhood experience. The poems take the oral and musical folklore of the Caribbean and link it to the verse of the traditional English nursery rhyme to…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Creative Expression, Cultural Context, Elementary Education
Harrison, Michael, Ed.; Stuart-Clark, Christopher, Ed. – 1994
Designed to appeal to children who are entering the world of poetry for the first time, this collection combines the traditional with the contemporary. It could be used equally well at home or in the book corner of a primary classroom. The collection includes poems by such classic children's writers as A. A. Milne, Ogden Nash, Christina Rosetti,…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
Download full textJohnson, David M. – 1990
Offering activities for secondary school students and amateur creative writers, this book demonstrates how teachers can break out of "high culture" stereotypes that make students think poetry has no connection with real life. Part one discusses the essentials of poetry and the roles of poets from ancient oral cultures to the present. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Figurative Language
