What are some basics of writing poetry that i need to know?

What are some basics of writing poetry that i need to know?
Like rhyme, rhythm etc.
I tried writing poetry and it was enjoyable but i lack the technique.
Any books on the topic?

Attached: Spooky.jpg (1080x1073, 245K)

what kind of poetry do you want to write? then, read your idols. copy them. think of ways to improve upon them. read standard aesthetic theory as well as some literary theory, eg. Kant, Nietzsche, etc. think about form, and what it means for poetry.

>First quatrain: An exposition of the main theme and main metaphor –
>Second quatrain: Theme and metaphor extended or complicated; often, some imaginative example is given
>Third quatrain: Peripeteia (a twist or conflict), often introduced by a “but” (very often leading off the ninth line)
>Couplet: Summarizes and leaves the reader with a new, concluding image
Very basic information on how to write a sonnet, but I found it quite helpful as a newcomer. Also maintain the same amount of syllables in each line (maybe one more than decided in one occasional line)

How does the rhythm and meter stuff work, I have a troubling time wrapping my head around the concepts, is it even necessary?

This guy is rightYou really don’t have to follow form or anything. It restraints the creativity when you’re just starting out, which doesn’t help boosting your want to write. Just sit down and try to write something. Put it away for a couple of days and look at it again. Note what works and what doesn’t, then try to rewrite the parts that don’t work.

>You really don’t have to follow form or anything.

I disagree. Bad habits should be discouraged before they crystallize. He'll break all the rules he wants when he understands them, and has mastered them.

That's how Rupi Kaurs are made, in other words.

Get a book on it it’s actually more complicated than that

See my friends... That's how shitty modern art is made and justified.

CAN YOU SAY WHICH FUCKING BOOK

Try “The Ode Less Travelled” by Stephan Fry. That will give you an introduction to the basic techniques of the craft.

WHICH FUCKING BOOKS
NON MEME OONES PLEASE

IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT FUCKING POETRY YOU WANT TO WRITE.
SONETS? ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THEN HEXAMTERS. ARE YOU RETARDED? THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF DEFFERENT FORMS AND RULESETS.

just write what your heart says

Just recommend any ones mate

Do psychedelic drugs like Arthur Rimbaud

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Can you read German?
Sie nannten es Sprache, Marcel Beyer.
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Nietzsche.
Prose-Edda, Snorri Sturluson
Also Inger Christensen has written some theory on poetry.

I speak Serbian as a mother tongue. Will these help me write in that language or are these specifically for English and German poetry?

also check some handbooks on rhetorics. I don't know what the standards are for English, but I' sure there are some academic canon books on rhetoric.

oh bro I just recently was to Slovenia and met some absolutely amazing poets. Eg Muanis Sinanovic. I really don't know about Serbia. I think Srecko Kosovel has written also some theory?
and no, these are not specifically for German or English.

Harp and Wreath is a must, along with Poems every child should know.
Then stand outside a pub and recite them from memory until they come out and beat you up.

1. Get Stephen Fry, as recommended above.
and/or
2. Ask somebody studying literature or dig through uni syllabi to find foundational books on lit theory which should, among other things, discuss versification. That way you'll cover some Serbian-specific aspects of versification, such as the deseterac/decasyllable verse.

Kosovel was fun and everything but he's Slovenian, it's a different language from Serbian.

it's not really that different tho. it should be readable for a Serbian speaker.

You speak a south Slavic language to be able to attest that?

I know this is a sensible topic and all, but yes, I've been to Slovenia and Serbia as well and from what I've gathered and also from what people told me on this, it's very well understandable.

The differences between Slovenian and Serbian are not a "sensible topic", though. Nobody thinks they're the same language or that you can read complex texts in the other one if you know either of them. They're close enough for some simple communication, not much more than that.

>Any books on the topic?
Yes, poetry books. Google a tutorial on scansion then just read some actual poetry books. Put off craft essays for later.

fine, then I had a misunderstanding of the situation. it's off-topic anyway and I'm 100% sure there are translation of Kosovel into Serbian.

>what a poem should have
ABC of reading - ezra pound
ars poetica - horace
>versification
look up for these documents:
introduction to meter- timothy steele
introduction to stanza - timothy steele

never read timothy's poetry but he teaches well