Writing a short poem applying

the various elements and literary

devices exploring innovative techniques
OBJECTIVES:
You are expected here to write a short poem highlighting the
structure of poetry. Specifically, this module will help you to:
1. write a short poem applying the various elements and
literary devices exploring innovative techniques
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12cf10)
2. use some of the learned elements, techniques, and literary
devices.
3. appreciate literary pieces written by local and foreign
writers.

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We all have encountered days
where we really cannot get the
inspiration or drive to write,
especially if it is a requirement
we do not enjoy.
List 5 reasons why we do not find
writing enjoyable.
Writing Preferences
Every author has his/her own inclinations when
drafting a record. Regardless of whether an
individual is composing a story, a sonnet, a diary
passage, a letter, or an innovative genuine piece,
the composing approach is peculiar, implying that
it is particular to the individual who is composing.

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Modification is
fundamental.

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The Writing Process
❑ Every piece of writing goes through a process of stages:
prewriting (also sometimes called planning), drafting,
cooling, revising, and publishing.
❑ These steps do not always follow one another in
succession. Instead, they are recursive, meaning a step
can occur again at any point in the process. For instance,
while revising a historically-based short story, a writer may
discover he/she needs to do additional research about the
time period that the story is set, which takes the writer
back to the prewriting stage.
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❑ This is the stage where the writer
thinks of the possible concept or
ideas.
❑ Conceptualizing helps to determine
the flow of the write-up.
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❑ Some writers keep a composing diary, a record
of records and notes, possibly drawings or
photos, that at first grabbed their eye. Authors
by and large are solid eyewitnesses who record
what they see, hear, taste, contact, and smell
since it might turn out to be a piece of a story, a
sonnet, a true to life article, a play, and so on.

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❑ Writers make several decisions in the
prewriting stage as well. They will answer
questions like the topic,
readers/audience, the mode of delivering
the context, the genre, the point of view
on how to tell the content and some
factual information.

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❑ Drafting includes composing of the primary draft
of a report. A few journalists compose their first
draft with a pen and a note pad. Different essayists
compose legitimately on a CP or PC. The decision
relies upon the inclination of the essayist.

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❑ A short bit of composing can be drafted at
a time. The objective is to get everything
down on paper before it is lost. On the off
chance that a piece can't be drafted at a
time since it is excessively long, scholars
for the most part stop at a spot where they
recognize what they will compose
straightaway.
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❑ When drafting, writers are urged to not focus
on spelling, accentuation, language structure,
and so on. Reexamining while at the same time
composing makes essayists lose the first
progression of the thought. Spelling,
accentuation, language structure, and so on can
be tended to in the last update.

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❑ Time plays an important part in writing. Once you
create your draft, you need to have some break
for you to unwind your mind in conceptualizing.
This will help you to rethink and re-conceptualize
for a new possible content or inputs. The main
draft must be done early enough to save it for the
suggested cooling time.

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❑ Writers of books have significantly
longer cooling periods. It might be
weeks, months, and here and there
even years, contingent upon the
author's inclination and the cutoff
time for the distribution of the book.

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❑ Revising literally means “to see again” not just once but
multiple times. Revision has two types of processes where
the larger problems such as content and organization and
the smaller problems such as sentence structure, word
choice, and formatting shall both be considered in revising
your output. Revising will help you to notice the other
elements of your write-up from the mechanics, structure,
coherence of the paragraphs and its core.

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❑ Some portion of updating may
incorporate requesting that others
read drafts and make modification
proposals. Eventually, it's consistently
up to the author whether those
update suggestions will be actualized
into the last draft.

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❑ Publishing involves submitting final manuscripts to editors of
print and online journals and magazines, newspapers, or
publishing companies.
❑ Although it’s great to see one’s name in print, not all writers
write for publication. Some write their stories, poems, letters,
diaries, etc. for the next generations – their children,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. They write to record
their personal history.

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Seatwork:

Identify the five (5) writing processes and describe/ say

something about each process.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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Write check √ if the example is of creative writing. If not, write X
mark instead.

1. Novels 6. Annual reports

2. Songs 7. Student’s handbook
3. Business letter 8. Short story
4. Fable 9. Book review
5. Speeches 10.Advertisement

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Creative Writing
❑ Creative writing is written to entertain and educate. We
enjoy reading novels and stories, not because they are
necessary to read or helpful for us, but because we
get a certain pleasure from reading them; the pleasure
which we can’t get from reading technical writing.
❑ composed basically to engage with the inventiveness
of the brain

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Technical Writing
❑ Technical writing isn't composed to entertain. It
is wholly written to inform and sometimes to
trigger the person reading into making an action
beneficial to the one of the writer.
❑ composed chiefly to advise in a conventional
way or to induce to make an activity, for
example, buy the author's item.

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Illustrations on the Comparison and Contrast of Creative Writing and
Technical Writing

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 Choose one and create your own answer of the following “what
if” questions.

1. What if you are a superhero, who would you save first?

2. What if you could have a full scholarship to any
university, what would you choose to study?
3. What if your parents let you name yourself when you
were born, what would your name be?

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 Benefits of writing
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. Kidder
(2019) had stated several benefits
of writing a poem.

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1. One, it fortifies your abilities to use strong symbolism.
Verse is a very picture-based type of composing, so
rehearsing verse will improve your symbolism in
different structures also.
2. 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.

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3. 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.
4. 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.

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Performance Task 1: Outline by using the elements

Directions: Do the outlining or planning of your poem to

be written. Do this on your notebook. (10 points)

Theme:
Poetic Form:
Kind of Stanza:
Sound Devices:
Imagery:
Figures of Speech:
Message:
Target Audience:
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➢ 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)
➢ Because poetry is so specific to the
artist, knowing how to write a poem in
your own way can be tricky.
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 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.

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1. 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.

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a. Here are different types of poetry forms that we have discussed in
the previousmodule:
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, andthe last is 5.
Acrostic – A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that
fits with thetheme 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 thatrhyme.
Free verse – This type of poem doesn’t follow any rules and is free written
poetry by
the author.

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⬩ Most of the poets that have explicitly less experience
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.
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b. 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.

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 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. Moreover, 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 and a period demonstrates a
more drawn out respite.

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c. 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.

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2. The use of 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.

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 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.

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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.

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3. The association of sound devices
The use of the auditory effect will also give aesthetics to
your piece, not just the physical outlook of it, but also on how to
sound it when the reader reads the piece. It gives additional
impact to the reader and let him remember it. The use of figures
of speech like Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance,
Onomatopoeia, rhyme and rhythm will surely help you to utilize
sound aesthetics well.

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4. 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

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⬩ Copying something another person has done or
thought of, won't give you a certified, passionate
piece that others can interface with. So
compose the sonnet that no one but you can
compose.
⬩ Since your experiences may be the first sources
of your concept, it will be easy for you to tell
and share.

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✓ Where could be the writers of stories and poem
or composers of songs get their thoughts? As
you learn in literature, 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.

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5. Do not be so ordinary, be unique and standout
There are many clichés you want to avoid when
writing poetry. Nothing really marks an amateur poet
like clichés. The temptation is strong but 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.

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⬩ 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

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6. Enhancing your poem using the Writing Cycle
Don't be reluctant to sit with your poem 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.

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⬩ 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.

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⬩ 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.

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 Performance Task 2: Writing Time!
Directions: Write a poem 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.
(20 points)
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