Poems&Qualities

Basic Qualities of A Poem

It is often difficult to provide a succint definition on what makes a good poem but a carefullapplication of relevant qualities in poems can stand your poem out and make you a MASTER.The images in your poem should be unique to provide the reader with vivid sensory detail while the Discourse of your poem should avoid cliché expressions.Present poem in original phrasing. The rythm and fixed meter should follow standard rules of prosody and should not sound mechanical. That is, metrical poems should maintain their structure of stressed/unstressed syllables without making the language seem wooden or monotonous. Rhythm. Free rhythm should have a distinct beat or current of sound. A poem written in free rhythm should not merely be prose chopped into shorter lines. Line Breaks.  Enjambment occurs when a line carries over from the preceding line. Enjambed lines should create suspense and movement, so the poem moves swiftly. Line Breaks. End-Stop occurs when meaning and rhythm pause at the end of the line. Effective end-stopped lines will have strong end-words (in both meaning and music); they will also make the reader pause long enough to consider the line.Figures of Speech.  Similes and metaphors need to avoid stock or cliché comparisons, such as “my love is like a rose.”  The comparisons should be unique and original, helping the reader to make new connections between the compared terms.Word Music. Direct rhyme should not be forced; the language should flow naturally, as in regular speech. The rhyming word should not be there just because it rhymes, but because it is the best word for the poem’s sense as well as its sound.Word Music.  Indirect rhyme creates a subtle echo of sound that is also called half-rhyme or slant rhyme.Word music within the lines is created by use of assonance and consonance. Strong poems will “ring” with such internal music.  Assonance are used to create musical echoes.Formal structures.  If a poet submits a formal poem such as a sonnet, sestina, or villanelle, the poem should adhere to that form’s basic structure.

BE A WRITER OF REPUTE:  The pen is useful if you can see clearly into the abstract world,hear inspiring  abstract voices,feel the abstract emotions ,breath the abstract air and exhale it into the reality\tangible form\.The abstract hemisphere is presupposed to be the premise of the writtable topic\issue\ yet to be put into tangible form.If you can, then enjoy the flight.

    Are you scared? I see you manifesting a deep sense of  worry of how to become a writer and a good one capable to arrest the attention of readers.What has stopped you.Do you think it is too late for you to start.Be encouraged that hope is not lost.Just change that thinking and get started writing your piece and make it an irresisitable readable one.

     You will need first to conceptualise the issues,get a topic,decide the form it will take and the language scope that will drive it to create the impact required.

     It will be difficult initially but discipline your mind to concentrate and meditate on the manner the topic should be developed,ie; the step by step approach to it.

     Your script may first appear condemnable but write it again, condemnable? write again.This is common with beginners and sometimes with experienced writers.Let that not discourage you.Writers are determined and enthusistic who find it difficult to discard or part with the pen.Use it valueably and do not get dispaired when genuine appreciation and commendation from people do arise.Just know where you are and going.

     Believe in it more and speak more of it.Writing is always a product of the mind. That is why no two persons can write alike.Make your observation be good, your capacity large and your reflection accurate.

     Get started and make the world of your mind real to the human society.