09-22-2012, 05:25 PM
clichés like anything else can be used to good effect. generally there just words we've remembered and put down on paper as being our own,
i will love you till the end of time.
why did you break my heart?
your beauty is like a rose
when we're together again
all these and a million other phrases are cliche, things that have been expressed the same way a large number of times. rowen hit the nail on the head when he said did you know it was a cliche? i'll ask; did you intend to use it as a cliche? if the answer is no to one or both of them, you need to rethink what you've written.
when we write poetry, it's true, we are posting about the same things that's been posted about for a 1000 plus years.
language being the wonderful thing it is allows us to do this in a different way every time. metaphor and simile are two of the best tools for this, there are many more but these are the easiest to pick up at first.
like grammar once we learn it (i'm really bad at it) we can play around with it and make it do things it shouldn't.
Because because is a conjunction it's seldom used to start a sentence. or you can discard it altogether if you know how to lay down the lines of poetry in order to do so.
you'll find yor own poet in you eventually, feedback will help, you'll learn what to use and what to discard. it's a craft that you'll learn if you want to.
i will love you till the end of time.
why did you break my heart?
your beauty is like a rose
when we're together again
all these and a million other phrases are cliche, things that have been expressed the same way a large number of times. rowen hit the nail on the head when he said did you know it was a cliche? i'll ask; did you intend to use it as a cliche? if the answer is no to one or both of them, you need to rethink what you've written.
when we write poetry, it's true, we are posting about the same things that's been posted about for a 1000 plus years.
language being the wonderful thing it is allows us to do this in a different way every time. metaphor and simile are two of the best tools for this, there are many more but these are the easiest to pick up at first.
like grammar once we learn it (i'm really bad at it) we can play around with it and make it do things it shouldn't.
Because because is a conjunction it's seldom used to start a sentence. or you can discard it altogether if you know how to lay down the lines of poetry in order to do so.
you'll find yor own poet in you eventually, feedback will help, you'll learn what to use and what to discard. it's a craft that you'll learn if you want to.