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Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
  • Poetry Writing Class
Poetry Writing Class

Poetry Writing Class

₱500.00

Overview

In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll explore the essentials of poetry through short lessons, guided writing, and close reading of published works.

What to expect:

  • Guided mini-writes after each lesson to apply new techniques immediately

  • Interpret short published poems to see techniques in action

  • Step-by-step drafting session to build a complete original poem

  • Reflection on sources of inspiration—memories, objects, emotions, and everyday moments

Class Outline

  1. Poetry Foundations

    • Learn key terms like lines, stanzas, rhyme scheme, meter, and more

    • Understand how these shape the rhythm and mood of a poem

    • Practice identifying them in short, classic and contemporary pieces

  2. Poetic Devices (Structure & Flow)

    • Explore how enjambment creates momentum and how caesura creates pause

    • See how repetition builds emphasis and musicality

    • More ways to shape a poem’s structure and pacing

    • Practice rewriting a short passage with and without these techniques

  3. Sound Devices (The Music of Poetry)

    • Discover how alliteration, assonance, and consonance create texture

    • Hear how onomatopoeia brings sound effects into writing

    • Work with rhyme and rhythm to set tone and pace

    • More techniques to make poems memorable aloud

    • Try building a stanza that relies on sound devices for effect

  4. Language & Figurative Devices (Imagery & Meaning)

    • Write with metaphor, simile, and personification to deepen expression

    • Use imagery and symbolism to create layers of meaning

    • More tools for vivid, powerful writing

    • Guided practice in transforming literal descriptions into figurative lines

  5. Types of Poems (Form & Freedom)

    • Learn traditional forms such as the sonnet, villanelle, haiku, and limerick

    • Explore playful and modern approaches like acrostics, free verse, narrative poems, and more

    • Understand how form shapes a poem’s tone, style, and creative impact

  6. Guidance & Inspiration

    • Finding ideas in everyday life

    • Drawing from memory, emotion, and personal experience

    • Using nature, art, and current events as sparks for poetry

    • Prompts and exercises to break through writer’s block

    • Collecting inspiration through journaling, observation, and lists

    • Turning ordinary details into extraordinary imagery

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have:

  • A clear understanding of how poetry works (from structure to sound to symbolism)

  • Hands-on practice with multiple poetic devices and forms

  • A finished draft of your own original poem

Register and pay here: Poetry Writing Class Sign-Up Form

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