Free Verse Poem

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by Carly Heyward76 views·Updated Mar 30, 2020
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  1. happy Friday.
  2. So tomorrow starts technically our spring break.
  3. So I put a little travel theme for us today.
  4. Um, say we're gonna be talking about your next bone,
  5. which is your free verse poem.
  6. So let's talk about what is it?
  7. So the thing about a free verse poem so versed
  8. basically means like the words and free means free.
  9. There's no rules.
  10. So because there's no patterns to follow, like limericks have
  11. a very strict pattern and syllable structure count.
  12. Hi cooze have a very strict line count only three
  13. by 75 syllables.
  14. Sonnet have a very strict Ryan scheme, but follow.
  15. So there's a lot of, like rules that follow certain
  16. formats. Reverse house and no rules.
  17. That could be any number of lines, although for us
  18. it has to be 10.
  19. Ah, it could be, um, rhyme or no rhyme.
  20. They usually don't rhyme because it's free, so they try
  21. not to limit themselves to having to come up with
  22. a word to support the rhyme.
  23. Although you're welcome to throw some lines in there like
  24. every once in a while, that rhyme just to kind
  25. of light show how something is important.
  26. Um, but there's no rules to it.
  27. So at first it seems like, Oh, it's so easy.
  28. I don't have to follow any rules, but because there
  29. isn't like a guiding system for you that you must
  30. follow, it almost makes it harder.
  31. Because then what do you write about?
  32. How do you structure it?
  33. What do you do?
  34. So before you get started with your writing here, some
  35. things that we want to D'oh.
  36. So consider a story that you could tell and maybe
  37. some sort of scene that you could get out of
  38. it. Otherwise, it's What's the point of writing?
  39. You know?
  40. What are you going to write about?
  41. Like, Oh, I saw a book on a shelf and
  42. I looked around my cats over your purring in this
  43. little pile.
  44. I couldn't.
  45. Yeah, get a job, Kat.
  46. You know, what were you writing about?
  47. So if you want there to be some sort of
  48. lesson to be learned, it's gonna make it a lot
  49. easier for you to decide what to write about as
  50. well as, um, how to write about it.
  51. So if you're wanting Thio, tell your theme by having
  52. something bad happened to someone or some sort of struggle
  53. than that might help you decide what word choices to
  54. use and to, you know, pick a tone that you
  55. want to take If you want it to be a
  56. happy, you know, thing that you learn that alone, I
  57. should use happy words.
  58. So picking a theme in a story that you can
  59. tell is gonna be the easiest way to kind of
  60. focus. Um, what you're gonna write for your free verse
  61. poem? I would recommend I'm not writing it fully like
  62. a story.
  63. You know, don't sit down on me like once upon
  64. a time, like probable, but just have a general idea
  65. of something that your poem can go through.
  66. It wouldn't hurt toe have, Ah, first person.
  67. It could be, You know, like I know is experiencing
  68. it. Or it could be about third person about another
  69. character or narrator or something like that.
  70. But just first think of it in the terms of
  71. a story and a theme that you can tell.
  72. Ah, while you're writing there some things that you could
  73. D'oh! Someone s o don't think about it as, um
  74. making it a poem right now, because that's going to
  75. kind of like box you in and make it, uh,
  76. you know, not bad, but just not as good because
  77. you're gonna be trying too hard.
  78. And for this type of home style where it could
  79. be difficult because you don't have you no rules trying
  80. too hard.
  81. It's gonna It's called being fish, and it's not really
  82. important right now, but it just makes it sound weird
  83. sometimes. So literally.
  84. I want you to just write a story, not focus
  85. on it being a poem and just ride it out.
  86. And pair of rare form.
  87. Ah, it could be multiple short little paragraphs.
  88. Just just get your little miniature tiny short story out
  89. into paragraph form, not worrying about it looking like a
  90. poem not worrying about, Like, how am I gonna make
  91. this rhyme just literally get the story out there.
  92. I get it and get it done.
  93. Ah, once you've got that done, uh, once you've got
  94. your paragraphs done, I want you to go down inside
  95. this same assignment spot.
  96. And, um, if you go, um, at the bottom, there
  97. is a, um there's three videos where are taken.
  98. Student examples of the their paragraph poem, and I have
  99. translated them, transferred them into being more of a poem.
  100. Ah, by looking at where to do line breaks, how
  101. to structure it and, like where to add and change
  102. things. Eso Step one.
  103. Get your story out there with some sort of general
  104. themes. Short, Not too long.
  105. Short. Don't make it seem like a poem.
  106. Now watch at least one of those videos.
  107. Probably 23 if you want.
  108. I have three there and really think about what?
  109. How you can apply the changes that I apply to
  110. those student examples to your own, um, then go back
  111. through and then go in and at all the sensory
  112. details, adding, um, line breaks of where you want to
  113. split your stands as where you want to add any
  114. literary devices.
  115. You know, I could strengthen this by making this into
  116. a nice simile, or here's a good spot for a
  117. hyperbole or what you want repeated to create a structure.
  118. So like, don't worry about any of that at the
  119. beginning. Just get your story out, figure out how you
  120. wanted to your line breaks and then go in and
  121. try to make it look more like a poem inside
  122. this week's, um folder and I'll move it to the
  123. next week is a swell is the one called Poetry
  124. Workshop or Problem Workshop or something like that.
  125. So, uh, if you want, put your poem up there
  126. and I'm we'll be around to give you advice if
  127. you want other people to kind of chime in and
  128. give you thoughts, Um, it's just the best place to
  129. kind of put it up there so everyone can kind
  130. of like, look at it and give you some tips
  131. if you want.
  132. For your free verse poem, just make sure you leave
  133. blood as a fever, so they kind of know what?
  134. Um, advice.
  135. Sick of you.
  136. Ah, if you have any specific questions about it, you
  137. can ask it in there.
  138. Or you could direct them to me on Verge or
  139. an email.
  140. Um, but yes of free verse ones can be a
  141. little difficult.
  142. That's why there's two, um, video conferences today that you
  143. can hop on for more questions if you want to
  144. ask me or if we want to schedule a time
  145. to do a one on one or if you want
  146. any feedback or something like that when I'm really excited
  147. to read your free versus because they could be very
  148. interesting if you let yourself so go through the process.
  149. Step one story theme step to break it up into
  150. line. Step three.
  151. Make it more pulling me by adding in all those
  152. extra poetry stuff.