how do poets of sonnets explore their ideas in their poems?
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The sonnet has a very specific structure.  It's divided into 2 parts: the octave (the first 8 lines) and the sestet (the last 6 lines).  Usually, the octave will ask or pose a question or problem and the sestet will answer the question asked in the octave.  In the case of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", Wordsworth is providing a physical response to the view.  He is describing what he is actually seeing.  In the sestet, he is writing an emotional response to what he has seen in lines 1-8.  \n\nPoets are most effective when they use powerful imagery, descriptive language, and popular poetic devices.
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Why don't you try looking for poems written during the Renaissance.  It is possible to find some thematically linked poems there. You have to do some work on your own.
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explain a bit better- why do you need to be a poet?\n\npoets write what they know or what they feel.\nso try writing how you feel every time you go to bed and then you will learn how to express yourself through words better.
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http://www.authorsden.com/categories/poetry.asp?alpha=a&catid=73
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This is a list of poets.  \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_poets\nHere are some poem sites\n http://www.poetry.com/greatestpoems/list.asp\nhttp://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/poems/index.html
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I just think about the situation and relive it. Poems are meories,thoughts and fellings. If you relive it then you just write how you fell or felt. If it is an object look for small and obvious details it will help the sense what it looks like. Poetry is all about expresion and how you veiw things. Just tell them like it is. Just don't forget tone. That is a key to poetry. Also Have fun with it ,use new words, and try different styles to express it.\n\nHope it helps.\nKim
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well--those are interesting answers-- and not completly wrong -but mostly--(this is my simple view of course) \n\nas for the poet and their words on thoughts of love(which they say they have printed many times).I can only say i understand what you are saying, but feel you may have missed a subtle point and ,therefore,somewhat mistaken.In poetry -a metaphor is used as symbol not the actuality of the absolute -nor is a similie a perfect match.So,often one's thoughts and writings have meaning and form ,and even truth of belief.However,they do not contain the truth in whole or as an absolute.\n\nThe rest are simply snippets of thoughts mostly brought out from a subjective view.However, they too contain their own (subjective)absolutes of truth,just as a poetic(or lyrical) expressed want or need ,or for that matter ,a non-desired want or need .A subjective absolute--is not complete, nor  can it be, without first perceiving it on its base form.\n\n So,what is the base form ? First you have to place its point of origin.AS for Love it seems to be a Human trait,which we in turn give to others and also place onto other creatures and various forms of life which are to our liking.\n\nAS a word it exists;as an emotion we connect it to the word.And,as with many words, it is something we give and recieve within our own various ways.Therefore,it can not be an illusion nor non-existant.However,it could be something disguised , which in many ways it is and shall always be for many a good(and bad) reason.Nevertheless,I do not believe you to be wholeheartly wrong or in any sense of the word in a complete or utter state of denial.There is substance in words and emotions,just like those contained in actions\n\nI think if you see it more as an extension ,and not an illusion per se of the mind ,it may be easier in this way to view and draw to a conclusion a simple, yet difficult absolute and truth : the validity of love and existance or not.\n\n   I shall leave it there. with love or not.In form and extensions.metaphors and similies.\n\ncheers
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The Elements of Poetry\n\n1. Rhythm: The metrical flow of sound determined by the placement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.\n\nShe stroked molten tones\n\nFrom the heart-carved maple dulcimer.\n\nQuestions: Does there seem to be a regulated metrical pattern to the poem? If so, what? Does each line generally seem to have the same number of stressed syllables? If so, how many? Are some lines longer than others? Why? Are some lines shorter? Why?\n\nExamples: In "Yonosa House," (the poem at the end of this document) the lines generally have three or four stresses, although there is no strict metrical pattern. The shortest line is line three: "My grandma did." The shortness emphasizes the subject (the grandmother) and her action (the verb "to do"). Through her loving actions, the grandmother epitomizes the spirituality and customs of her people.\n\n2. Rhyme: When the final vowel and consonant sounds of words are the same (i.e., mouse/house, low/toe).\n\nQuestions: Is there a rhyme scheme to the poem? If so, what is it? Is there any incidental rhyme in the poem? Which lines? When you say the rhyming words together, what mood, feeling, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke? Is there any internal rhyme? Off -rhyme? List the line numbers and jot down the feelings, etc., the words evoke.\n\nExamples: There is no rhyme scheme in "Yonosa House," but there is off-rhyme at lines 17-19, which are in italics, indicating they are the words/song of the grandmother. These off-rhyming words - rock/bark/hawk - are all words for nature. They indicate that the wisdom/the myths of the race come from an attunement with nature. In line 24 there is internal rhyme: wore/lore. These words .imply that the grandmother "wore" the wisdom of the tribe in her very being, that wisdom was intrinsic in her.\n\n3. Words.\n\nQuestions: Look up and define any words you don't know. And if there are significant words that seem to have more than one denotation and/or connotation, look up the etymologies (the roots of those words).\n\nExamples: Line 13, lanyards = A short rope of gasket for seizing a ladder or the like or to secure rigging; a cord worn around the neck for carrying a knife, keys, or a whistle. From OF word for thong, strap; perhaps laz, lace + naele, string.\n\n4. Repetitions.\n\nQuestions: Are any significant words repeated in the poem? Which ones? Why? That is, what are the repetitions emphasizing?\n\nExamples: The words heart, maple, and hands are repeated in the poem. They emphasize the activities of the grandmother, who is often portrayed doing things, activities from the heart. Love in action, those hands, those activities, her big heart are what the poet remembers most.\n\n5. Alliteration: When two or more words have the same initial sounds (i.e., Becky bopped the baker).\n\nQuestions: What lines contain alliteration? List each line. Write out the words that alliterate. When you say the alliterating words together what feeling, mood, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke?\n\nExamples: Line 6 - sat/sack. The words emphasize her age. Her body no longer has a definable shape. It is like a sack. I can see her hunched over, everything sort of falling into itself.\n\n6. Assonance: Partial rhyme, when the internal vowel sounds of words are the same (i.e., cow/bound/mouse).\n\nQuestions: What lines contain assonance? List each line. Write out the words that assonate. When you say the assonating words together what feeling, mood, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke?\n\nExamples: Line I - stroked/molten/tones. Rich "o" sounds. Depth. Roundness. A resonance. Top capture the tones of the dulcimer. Also the assonance emphasizes the synesthesia of the line. (Synesthesia = the mixing of the senses.. One type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. A color sings. A song has color.) We can "see" and "feel" the tones, which are like the colors and heat of metal in a forge,
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in poems one can express any thought without giving it any bindings of any location... it is free just as the thought. but in stories u have to be specific.. abt several details... and that sometimes becomes tough to imagine.
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poetry can be a hard concept to grasp. but its just what you get from the poets words. there is no right or wrong answer(well there shouldn't be, depending on your teacher) its an expression of your feelings, words givin to give them meaning
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Well, I tried but I need to know more about the lines in the poem.   Maybe you'll have better luck with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/\n\nhttp://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=50938&catID=678\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12717\n\nhttp://www.thent.com/poetry.htm\n\nhttp://lii.org/search/file/poetry
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A poem is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.\nA composition in verse rather than in prose.\nA literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.\nA creation, object, or experience having beauty suggestive of poetry.\n\nThe word poem is a derived word.  There isn't one famous writer or composer affiliated with the creation of this word.
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The poupose of a poem is to express your ideas, thoughts or feelings in an unconvential manner.
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Check out the Sonnets. Lots of great stuff in there. Sonnet 18 is the classic of course:\n Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,\nAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date:\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd;\nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,\nBy chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;\nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade\nNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;\nNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:\n  So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,\n  So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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it's not a sonnet. sonnets have very specific patterns.\nI'd need to see the actual poem to tell you more.
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try thinking, then form a thought, THEN write it down...
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shakesphere's sonnets were written for ladies he loved and wanted to seduce. that is a point of a sonnet to impress the beloved and seduce them the thing is no one knows who he wrote them for because there were so many ladies he wrote them to and no one knows which specific sonnet was for whom