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17762439 No.17762439 [Reply] [Original]

How does one learn to write poetry, more specifically, sonnets? Poets seem to just emerge with the ability, are there exercises to practice composition of poems? Book on how to compose perhaps?

>> No.17762452

>>17762439
Really there's no secret: read a lot of sonnets (since that's what you want to write), study them, see how they affect you and why. You can read about prosody and poetry from a more general point of view of course. Observe the world. And then write nigga (and for the love of God don't write the same shit that has been written a thousands times).

>> No.17762456

I would like to write sonnets for personalities I admire, like a portrait, and keep to myself, nothing pretentious.

>> No.17762467

>>17762452
I will keep that in mind. Thanks for replying.

>> No.17762548

>>17762439
The ode less traveled by Stephen fry has a section on sonnets and also goes over a lot of poem writing basics. It also has exercises to further ones grasp. It’s a decent little book so long as you are the type to take what you learn and then innovate it instead of just regurgitating the same boring schlock over and over.