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Hi 
I write mostly prose, but I lovelovelove reading poetry, and I do sometimes write poems for fun. My college offers a poetry creative writing class that's in a workshop style. They also offer a few English classes focusing on poetry movements where you only read it and analyze it but don't write it.
For someone who doesn't know much about poetry technique and is not big on writing poems, which option do you suggest? I definitely want to become more grounded in poetry in general and learn more about poetry's mechanics and how people write it, since I have only been reading poetry for a year or two. But I feel like learning how to write poetry better would definitely help me write better prose. Right now, I'm leaning towards the reading/analytical type classes, because I feel like you can learn a lot about writing from reading. But I'd also like to get critiqued. So does anyone have any advice/experience on which type of class would be more ideal for someone with little knowledge/skill?
thank you!
I write mostly prose, but I lovelovelove reading poetry, and I do sometimes write poems for fun. My college offers a poetry creative writing class that's in a workshop style. They also offer a few English classes focusing on poetry movements where you only read it and analyze it but don't write it.
For someone who doesn't know much about poetry technique and is not big on writing poems, which option do you suggest? I definitely want to become more grounded in poetry in general and learn more about poetry's mechanics and how people write it, since I have only been reading poetry for a year or two. But I feel like learning how to write poetry better would definitely help me write better prose. Right now, I'm leaning towards the reading/analytical type classes, because I feel like you can learn a lot about writing from reading. But I'd also like to get critiqued. So does anyone have any advice/experience on which type of class would be more ideal for someone with little knowledge/skill?
thank you!
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