Getting Better Acquainted with Words

In the next episode of " The Invisible College" that I've listened to they talked about how the art of stringing words together is important if you want your piece of writing to be vivid and vibrant. There was feautered a lecture given by Ted Hughes (a british poet)in early 60s in which he explained to students that a good piece of writing is "an assembly of living parts". By living parts he meant the words, the images and the rhytms. He was convinced that if any of these parts are dead a poem or any other piece of writing won't be vivid.  There were also featured speeches given by, for example Charles Bukowski and  Virginia Woolf.

These creative writing lessons are truly interesting to me and I feel that I'm learning a lot from them. I especially liked what Ted Hughes said about the words being alive. He explained that the words that are alive are the words that can be heard, felt, smelled etc. when you read them. And I think that one of the most difficult things to achieve when you're writing something is making the words mean something more than just letters written on paper.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053dyjg