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Understanding Poetry Writing

Online
4-5 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn how to write poetry in this free online creative writing course that explains how to construct and publish verse. This creative writing course offers a great way to become a skilled poet and publish your work. We cover the basics of verse and explore the role of theme, linguistic structure, sound and imagery to help you make the most of your talent and turn your love of poetry into publishable content. We draw on expert guidance to show you how to read, analyse, write, revise and publish your work to reach a larger audience through various channels.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID196053
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration4-5 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
• Explain the concept of poetry and poetic forms
• Outline how to find poetry and become a skilled writer
• Identify the five sensory experiences of poetry
• Indicate the various types of repetition and figures of speech used to establish rhythm and metre
• Discuss how poets utilise consonants and vowels
• Outline the different types of rhymes and alliteration
• Explain the factors that define the voice and style of poetry
• Outline the form of sonnets, ghazals, odes, ballads, psalms and traditional Japanese verse
• Describe the use of nontransitive, transitive, independent and dependent clauses in poetry
• Recognize literary resources and describe the method for reading poetry
• Summarize the usage of images, similes and metaphors in poetry
Course Code5370

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