Why Study this Poetry Writing Course?
If you love writing, and you love poetry even more, then this course is perfect for you! This online poetry writing course will teach you every important thing there is to know in successfully understanding and making a poem. This course will teach you how you can develop your skills in writing and comprehending various types of poetry, the different traditional styles used by famous poets, the rules of poetry, how to tell a story using a poem, and more.
Poetry Distance Learning Course
Poetry is an amazing vehicle for expressive writing. Learn the forms and techniques in this unique 100 hour online course.
- Study in your own time and at your own pace.
- Study with our highly experienced tutors.
- Develop your poetry writing skills.
- An introductory course to many different elements of poetry.
- Write all types of poetry – serious, witty, funny, and so on
- Develop your ability to write and understand different styles of poetry
- Explore how you can use your poetry – at home, at work, for relaxation
Lesson Structure
There are 9 lessons in this course:
- Introduction
- Nature and scope of poetry
- Brief description of the many different types of poetry
- Poetic devices (Rhyme, Assonance, Alliteration, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Symbolism, Similie, Metaphor)
- Styles that tell a story (Monody, Ballad, Epitaph)
- Classic styles (Sonnet, Ode, Haiku)
- Monorhyme
- Trick poems (Limerick, Tonge Twister, Shape Poem, Palindrome)
- Styles classified according to arrangement of lines (Quatrain Style, Pantoum, Free Verse, Villanelle, Clerihew, Damante, Acrostic Style)
- Keeping a notebook
- Editing
- Terminology
- The Work of Other Poets
- Shakespeare
- Kendall
- Batejeman
- Angelou
- Shelley
- Dickinson
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Encouraging your creativity.
- Exploring creativity
- Understanding your own creativity
- Developing different styles of poetry A (Some Classic Styles)
- Ode
- Sonnet
- Italian Sonnet
- Haiku
- Writing Haiku
- Developing different styles of poetry B (Following the Rules)
- Quatrain
- Pantoum
- Acrostic
- 21st Century Visual Poetry
- Developing different styles of poetry C (Poetry for Story Telling)
- Developing a story in poetry
- Planning a story
- Developing your voice
- Ambience
- Ending a story
- Epitaph style
- Monody
- Developing different styles of poetry D (Styles for Fun and Trickery)
- Funny poems
- Tongue twisters
- Limericks
- Getting your work published (how and where)
- Creative writing resources
- Other industry resources
- How and where to get published
- Self publishing
- Vanity publishing
- The next phase (how to continue to improve)
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- Experienced Tutor support
- Certificate sent to you
- Online study (Printed notes available)
- Self paced - no set timetable
- 12 months to complete course
From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks