After going though some examples in class of how to take abstract language and change it to concrete, I am having issues in my own poems. I feel like when we went step by step I could see the variety of concrete words I could use for vague words like "everything" and "reality". I was surprised as to how many different ways you change simple words. But as soon as I tried to do it myself I feel as though none of my words fit with my poems and it all seems to be crazy and all over the place. It is very weird because I always thought of abstract language would be better because it is very vague and could have many different meanings. I do see now why it is better to use concrete language because even though it might be talking about something specific you can see or hear, it can still mean so many different things to different readers. Still none of mine seem to really fit well. I suppose it is just something you have to practice and will eventually become more natural when writing.
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I had discovered the need for concrete language this year when one of my other teachers was talking about it in class. I had never realized the difference it made or how much harder it is to come up with original concrete language. some days my poems for this class seem alright to me and other days I feel like writing is near impossible to do well especially when revising to become more concrete and suitable for an audiences' perspective. plus being cliche is a whole other can of worms.
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