Many have tried to write poetry. Especially in my youth. Especially about love. And if then disappointment came, and it seems that there is no love at all, and so you want to express your feelings.
Writing style
Before you start creating a poem, you should think about the style in which it will be written. Perhaps it will be elegiac regrets about the impossibility of such a feeling as love. Or maybe the poem will be full of irony and mockery of those who "believe in love", although their faith has no foundation, and the feelings they experience cannot be called love? The further choice of the form of the poem and, of course, its content depends on the general author's attitude.
Poem form
You can turn to the classical form of versification and clothe your thoughts in rhymed lines. As a rule, two-part or three-part sizes of verses are most often used.
The two-part (consisting of 2 syllables) sizes include:
- Chorea (stress on the first syllable):
Through the wavy mists
The moon is making its way
To the sad glades
She glows sadly. (A. Pushkin)
- Yamb (stress on the second syllable):
“I know - the city will be, I know the garden will bloom
When people like that
There is a Soviet country. (V. Mayakovsky)
Three-part (consisting of 3 syllables) include:
- Dactyl (stress on the first syllable, 2 subsequent ones are unstressed):
“Glorious autumn! Healthy, vigorous!
The air invigorates tired strength;
Ice is immature on the icy river
Like melting sugar lies. (N. A. Nekrasov)
- Amphibrachium (stress on 2 syllables, 1 and 3 syllables - unstressed):
Once upon a time in the cold winter time
I went out of the forest; there was a severe frost,
I look, it rises slowly up the hill
A horse carrying brushwood. (N. A. Nekrasov)
- Anapest (stress on the 3rd syllable, the first two syllables are unstressed)
“I won't tell you anything, I will not alarm you at all
And what I say in silence, I dare not hint for anything. (A. Fet)
If you want to avoid difficulties with rhyming, then you can choose a more free form that does not require rhyming lines:
- White verse: in this form there is a poetic meter, but there is no rhyme:
“Everyone says: there is no truth on earth.
But there is no truth above. For me
So it is as clear as a simple scale.
I was born with love for art … (A. Pushkin)
- Vers libre is the freest form of verse, in which the rhythmic pattern is not observed and rhymes are not present:
“I love a lot that is close to my heart,
Only rarely do I love …
More often than not I enjoy gliding across the bay, -
So, - forgetting
Under the sonorous measure of the oar, Soaked in effervescent foam, -
Yes, look, I drove a lot
And there is a lot left
Why not see the lightning … (A. Fet)
- Poem in prose is an intermediate "stage" between poetic and prose speech. We can say that in form it is prose, and in content it is poetry, for example:
"Blue mountains of the Caucasus, I greet you! You have nurtured my childhood; you carried me on your wild ridges, dressed me with clouds, you taught me to the sky, and since that time I have been dreaming about you and about the sky. Thrones of nature, from which smoke thunderclouds fly away, who once prayed to the creator only on your peaks, he despises life, although at that moment he was proud of it!.. "(M. Lermontov)
It is better for a person who is not experienced in versification to start with more free forms - a poem in prose or white verse, and it is not a sin for a more experienced poet to experiment with rhymes. It should only be remembered that two-beat sizes are perceived as more "dynamic", especially for iambus, and three-beat sizes are perceived as "slower" and "lyrical".
The content of the poem
Having dealt with the form, you can go to the content. It's difficult to advise here: the content entirely depends on the author's imagination and his own understanding of the problem. Only a few general guidelines can be given.
- It is not bad to define what the lyric hero of the poem understands by love. This is a complex and multifaceted feeling, and the understanding of the essence of love is different for different people.
- You can describe in a poem, on what the conviction that there is no love is based, give arguments, examples confirming this statement.
- What is the attitude to the fact of the lack of love in the lyrical hero? Perhaps he is suffering and sad about this? Or maybe he is only happy about that?
In any case, it should be remembered that a poem is, first of all, a way for the author to convey his living feelings, emotions, experiences. And no "cut" in the form of a clear size, original and precise rhymes can replace them.
