Self-presentation in poetry is often the most difficult thing, as well as poetry in itself. Lyrics are not given to everyone. Of course, the poems are different, to understand some of the effort you need even less than to understand a simple advertisement. But you are going to present yourself, your way of thinking, so you have to approach the choice of verses more than carefully.
Instructions
Step 1
Write in prose what you want to express in verse. Consider the specifics of the event for which you are preparing a self-presentation. Make a list of ideas that you will need to put into poetic form later, and then take a good look at them: maybe you shouldn't even fiddle with poetry? Wouldn't it be better to just put together a prosaic text? After all, poetry is difficult, a person must have a special flair to understand good poetry, and bad poetry, you must admit, it is better not even to use it to represent yourself.
Step 2
You have a list of ideas before your eyes. Now you need to decide whether you yourself will compose poetry or take someone else's, composed already before you. If you want to showcase all your talents, write yourself, but keep in mind that the poems must be good. Therefore, test them: let them read to friends or acquaintances, it is better to those who understand poetry and literature in general. Ask them to be objective. They will let you know if you should keep writing or resort to tried and tested geniuses.
Step 3
If you have given up on your own writing and decided to make a selection of poems, do not think that the problems are over. It will be, perhaps, even more difficult to compose a selection than to compose yourself, since in your own poems the soul pours out most fully and in accordance with reality, and it will not be so easy to find poems that would illustrate your nature in the right way. You will have to rummage through mountains of books and re-read hundreds of poems to find the few (or just one) that will best represent you.
Step 4
Now the problem arises: one or many? On the one hand, you can make something like a "collage" of poetry, passages in which will be arranged in accordance with your idea, and then you will be able to show yourself from different sides. At the same time, you can pick up one verse, even a small one, which will be the most concise, fully convey the features of your nature. It all depends on your personal taste and the time that is allotted to you for self-presentation.
Step 5
It doesn't matter if you're looking for poetry or writing yourself - be careful with humor. This is a very dangerous thing, here either pan or disappear: you can amaze everyone with your wit, make the audience laugh and leave a favorable impression, or, on the contrary, bombard the viewer with stupid, flat jokes that no one will understand and win only a reputation as a loser.
