WRITING ACROSTIC POEMS

WRITING ACROSTIC;

Many people think that writing an acrostic poem is easy, and to an extent it is, but to write one right, well, properly, isn’t that easy. It takes some skill. An Acrostic is more than a poem where the first letter of each line or alternating line is thrown together to form, spell out, a word or phrase. A great acrostic poem has intricacies within it. These are a few definitions of what an Acrostic poem is:

ACROSTIC POEM: A poem in which the first letters of each line form a word or message relating to the subject.

Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same word or words as in the title.

Acrostic- a poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that can be read vertically

I think all these definitions are accurate. An Acrostic poem is all of these. It is a poem wherein the first letters of each line form a word or message relating to the subject, a poem wherein the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same word or words as in the title, and it is a poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that can be read vertically. What I think is crucial and important is that that word formed, spelled, and the poem be related. If the subject of your poem is that word, then the chosen words in your poem should relate to or define that subject. Say, if you write an Acrostic poem titled “Summer”, Summer being the word that is formed, spelled out, the poem should relate to, describe Summer. The title, the subject, and word or phase spelled out in a poem should be related, should relate to one another. The word or phase spelled out by your Acrostic poem should be and/or reflect the subject of your poem. A poem in which “Beautiful” is spelled in an acrostic should tell why and what makes whatever being spoke of in the poem Beautiful. That person, place, or thing’s beauty spoke of should be extolled, expounded on, by the words, lines, used in your poem, so that the reader may understand clearly such beauty, and if you’re being sarcastic employing sarcasms in and by your spelling out of the word Beautiful, the reader should be able to see, get that. Say, you wrote an Acrostic of a “Tell Tale Heat” the poem - like the literary story should tell, show, why the heart is a “Tell Tale Heart”, and shouldn’t just be a poem where the phase “Tell Tale Heart” is spelled out, while the poem itself has nothing to do with that. As all the definition say an Acrostic is a poem wherein the first letter and in some cases the last letter of a poem come together to spell out a word or a phase, and that word or phase should be literally and/or figuratively spelled out, in and by your poem!!! To write a good Acrostic this is what one must do!!!!

I agree, but I still think writing Acrostic poetry is easy. But, then, all poetry is.

btw, what is a "Tell Tale Heart" from someone who's never read the story...just cliff's notes.

Acrostic poems can be difficult to write, depending on the letters involved.

I am of the opinion that it is quite easy.

What I attempt to do, instead of just having a poem with acrostics in it, is write poems with subliminal messages in it - that is to say, where the poem contains another message within the actual writing, spaced out in a logical way. For example, the third word on every line forms a sentence...

To make the poem work, and for it to be a good poem, it requires effort.

ahhh... I agreee.... Its very hard to write an acrostic poem... and just like Britt said... it also depands on the letters involved. I my self wrote an acrostic poem and to be honest, i think its the worst poem i wrote.

I htink its easier becuase the letter is already there u just have to find a word