Tony Morris - Poetry Writing Workshop    
Exercise 3 - Images
  1. General: Write a stanza or two containing general images that resonate strongly with one another so that their overall effect creates a powerful atmosphere.
  2. General to specific: Make a general statement and then follow it with a highly specific image that "shows" the meaning of the statement.
  3. Moving Image: Create an image, and then bend the image in stages so it becomes transformed into something else.
  4. Deep Image: In order to capture archetypal and instinctual levels of consciousness, write out an important experience in which you use elemental kinds of images.
  5. Abstract Image: In an effort to cover a great deal of conceptual territory, write out an image that contains an abstract notion and then fuse an opposite abstract notion to it in order to create a paradox in which both terms are true at once.
  6. The Emblem: Create an emblem in a poem by employing images that have similar symbolic qualities and harmonic meanings.

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Generation
Connections
Imagery
Form
Free Verse
Types
Opening/
Closing

Revision

Exercises

 
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