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Monday, January 31, 2011

Poetry Journal #5: Two Poems (or one longer one) using Concrete Images to Describe Abstract Ideas

Write a poem (at two stanzas of five lines) or two poems using two different abstract ideas.  Use concrete images to describe an abstract idea. 

An abstract idea is:  anything that cannot be directly experienced with the senses (for example, pain, love, hate, life, death, shame, joy, friendship, embarrassment, beauty, loneliness, etc.

A concrete image:  anything that can be experienced with the senses.