CREATIVE WRITING POEM USING INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY

Abstract

Realizing that teaching writing poem is a difficult activity and the strategy applied by the
teachers is less effective and tend to be informative and theoretical one, therefore this research
should be conducted to make the teaching and learning literature more meaningful and give advantages
for the learners. The problems that appear in the research are
1. How does the teacher implement the four-element response model in creative writing poem?
2. How is the students’ response?
The research design used in this study was qualitative research . While the subject of the study
was the fourth semester students which consisted of 20 students.. The instrument used in this
research was questionnaires and observation. The open-ended questionnaire was designed in order
that the students can decide what to say and how to say.
The finding showed that the teacher implemented the four-element response model in
creative writing poem into 3 stages: a) pre activity with reconstruction, b) whilst activity: mental
images and interacting on an affective level, and c) post activity with evaluating the element of
poem. The activity in the creative writing poems were 1) reconstruction; determine and find out the
object they were going to write, 2) mental imagery; the students were guided to image the object
with many possibilities and also personify the chosen object, 3) Interacting on an affective level;
combine the result of imagination with the meaningful work and asked to associate with their own
life experiences. 4) Evaluate and publish their work. And the students’ response toward the activity
was positive. It can be seen that the students were very enthusiasm. The first indicator was the
students can actively involve in the discussion from the beginning up to the end . Another indicator
was that they can express their feeling, emotion and imagination freely into their work of writing
poem.