Poetry in practice
Doris Corti looks at how to convey emotion in your poems
Doris Corti
Do you want to put emotion in your new poem. Sure, why not?
However, you wouldn’t write something in the following way: ‘Today it is cold and raining/sky cloudy? Outside the house I fell on the path/twisted my ankle/I cried.’ No, you would not write like that as this would be simply telling a reader and not showing any emotion that the narrator might be feeling. Let’s look at those lines again and amend them.