Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Writing using animal themes
When i began writing poetry for this class, i realized that many of my poems were based on a lot of animal themes. Me being a zoology major i believe plays a key role in this. For example, during one exercises in class i began to write about a lioness on a hunt. Titled "predator and prey", i found myself describing in great detail a hunt that was about to take place. I found myself writing more fluently and i understood the poetry framework if you will, at a easier pass. When connecting with my muse and thinking of a lion hunting, a whole lot of ideas just screamed out at me. I feel that writing good poetry is built out of that persons interest or even career field because of the greater connection and understanding of that certain theme that would take place.
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I totally agree with what you are saying. I find that I really connect with nature and imagining scenes from nature really get my muse going. Whenever we are doing an exercise in class and I'm having a hard time with writing a poem, I just imagine a nature scene and my muse just takes it from there.
ReplyDeleteI can also relate to what your saying. In the beginning of the semester, I felt as though I was relating every poem to dance/dancing in one way or another, probably since i've danced my whole life. I also tend to write a lot of love poems because i've been with my boyfriend for a long time now, and he's such a huge part of my life. I think that my poems finally started to vary a little was when we learned about "lies" in class. This made me realize that I could include details and images in my poem that weren't necessarily true. This was a very useful tool when we started writing more poems, because I was able to include some variety in my poems.
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