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10 Things I Hate About You [1]

Poetry [2]
2.21.17

Writing an unsentimental love poem can be one of the more difficult endeavors a poet can take on, whether the subject of that poem is a lover, a family member, or friend. Taking inspiration from the popular film 10 Things I Hate About You [3], a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, write an ode to the aspects of a loved one that downright irk you. How might you use a form of repetition in your poem—like an anaphora [4] or refrain—to build tension and showcase either the unlikable or admirable aspects of this person?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/10_things_i_hate_about_you [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGV4hxhxW8o [4] https://www.pw.org/content/anaphora_1