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Poetry Writing for Beginners

Online
3-4 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn how to write and publish poems in this free online course that provides creative tools and poetic devices. Poetry conveys powerful messages, tells stories, teaches lessons and expresses emotions. This writing course boosts your creative thinking and skills as a budding poet. We show you how to employ poetic devices like imagery to sharpen your text and unleash your creativity. We explain how to embellish your artistry with rhythm and cadence to create performance poetry. We discuss grammar tricks, traditional forms of verse and how to publish a poem.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID196090
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration3-4 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Identify different types of poetry and reasons for writing poetry
• Distinguish between the abstract and concrete concepts of poem writing
• Classify the rhymes and alliteration (consonance patterns) used in poetry
• Describe the importance of keeping a poetic journal
• Apply your passions, muse and personality to select suitable subjects for your poems
• Recognise the causes of writer's block and explain how to overcome it
• Discuss the poetic craft, including the use of images, line breaks and syllables in verse
• Outline the guidelines for publishing your poems
Course Code6103

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