Narrative Poetry Writing Skills Through Fantasy Imagination Strategies: Efforts To Improve Students' Creative Ideas

This study aims to describe the ability of elementary school students to develop ideas and imagination in writing narrative poetry. The background of this research is the low ability of students to develop ideas and imagination in writing poetry. Therefore, this study applies a fantasy imagination strategy to stimulate and improve students' ability to develop their ideas and imagination to produce more creative and expressive narrative poetry. The research method used is the case study method. Case data was obtained by conducting open interviews with several Indonesian teachers, and classroom observations. In addition, additional data studied is students' creative poetry in the form of narrative poetry resulting from implementing the fantasy imagination strategy model. The participants in this study are fifth-grade elementary school students in Indonesia. The implementation of this fantasy imagination strategy model is carried out by utilizing images and concrete objects. Students are invited to see, hear, touch, and feel directly with the object. The process of fantasy imagination is carried out by students when students interact with concrete objects they observe. Students explore their fantasy ideas and imaginations as a creative thought process. The results of this study show that every activity of writing narrative poetry through fantasy imagination strategies is effective in improving students' abilities. The activities carried out showed significant development in the aspects of developing ideas, vocabulary, and students' creativity in writing narrative poetry.