Unit 2 - Lesson 5: Prompts

An Introduction

Craft:

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This lesson is quite a short one. It's meant to be more of a creating lesson than a heavy learning lesson! In this lesson, we'll be talking about the power of prompts on poetry. We'll be starting out with an article with a ton of prompts for poetry. Feel free to skim through and look for a little inspiration. The article was put out by the website, WritingForward.

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The article is linked to the right of this text.

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Now we'll be talking about what you just read and adding on some new knowledge!

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Prompts, especially poetry prompts are a great way to get your creative juices flowing! Here, we'll be discussing some ways to help you adapt to both poetry and prompts, and how to take full advantage of both.

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First, it's always good to listen to music that causes some emotion in you! Music that inspires you, angers you, or makes you feel joy can bring out more emotion in your poetry! Secondly, try having your poem look more polished. Switch your font to Garamond. Take some inspiration from poetry books. You'll be surprised at how good you feel when your poem looks more professional. And finally? Have a good time with it! Prompts are meant to inspire you - so they're not strict rules. If a prompt inspires you to write something completely the opposite of it, go with it! Prompts try to pull a poem out of you, so let the poem come, even if its nothing like what helped it form!

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Create:

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This is the final step in this lesson. Now you get to put what you learned into practice!

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Use the prompts linked above and try to find one that inspires you. If none do, look up others online. Keep searching until you find a spark of inspiration and then start writing! Use the tips we've discussed and let a poem take shape in front of you!

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If you have time, write another poem or share your written poem with a partner and get some feedback on it!