 Poetry: April 28, 2010 Issue [#3701] |
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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Online Poetry Tools
We’ve all been there. You’re writing away and then SCREECH!
You come to a halt because the perfect word, has escaped you. It might have been there before you were interrupted, or perhaps it sits just beyond your mental reach. If the flow is there you add notes or a big blank space and continue until you’ve got everything down on paper or a word document.
After you’ve tweaked, poked and ironed out the poem, you’re still annoyed because that word has still evaded you. You could settle for one of the options in your notes, but you don’t want to settle—you want perfection! Now you turn to your shelves of resources, but wait! What if you’re sneaking in some writing time between classes, or during lunch at work?
I was away from home (and my shelves of resource materials), but had access to online resources this weekend. I needed that word, but it giggled in this haze just out of my mental reach. Since I am the Google Goddess, I began to tackle the problem there, and I am delighted to say I found a new toy, er, tool!
My New Online Poetry Tool
http://www.OneLook.com
HOW YOU CAN UTILIZE THIS SITE FOR POETRY WRITING:
Alliteration aid: We can search the site by a letter or letter group only, or better yet, a subject that starts with a certain letter or letters. EX: Let’s say we want a descriptive word to alliterate with the word “ball.” Further, we want to use the image of the ball dancing. Simply do the search: “b*:dance” and all the words that start with “b” and are related to the word “dance” will be listed.
Rhyming aid: This tool can be used to find rhyming words, but I find Rhyme Zone (listed below) a better resource UNLESS I want to do a combo search. EX: I want to rhyme with ball but want to have the word relate to the sun. I would search “*all:sun.” However, the limitation for this is the rhyming words listed would be visual or full rhymes. Rhyme Zone would should be used to find slant rhymes.
Thesaurus: What if I decided I didn’t want a ball image, but something similar. If I search with “:ball” then I would get back all the words related to the word ball. Like rhyming, using this tool as a thesaurus is best when used in combination with other parameters, like specific beginning or ending letters. My first choice would still be Thesaurus.com if I only needed a thesaurus.
This site has other uses, but these are the only ones I’ve used for writing poetry--so far.
Other Online Poetry Tools I’ve Used
http://www.rhymezone.com/
HOW YOU CAN UTILIZE THIS SITE FOR POETRY WRITING:
Rhyming aid: If we search this site for rhymes for a particular word (ex. camera) we will get back a list of words that rhyme—listed according to how many syllables they contain. However, the more syllables the word searched with has, the more limited the list (camera comes back with four words—none I’ve ever heard of). If we change the search to find words that rhyme with “era” a much larger list is given. Don’t forget to try words that rhyme with “ah,” or "eh," too--meaning try all similar sound endings to search for slant rhymes.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
HOW YOU CAN UTILIZE THIS SITE FOR POETRY WRITING:
Sometimes a poet needs to be mindful of syllables. I use this site to verify the syllable counts of words when needed. I’ve lived in the southern U.S. for a long time and I’m used to drawing out my words, and that can add a syllable or two. Checking it out now saves me trouble, possible disqualification and embarrassment later.
EX: Favorite. I’ve heard this said as fav’rite (two syllables), or Fav’er’it (three syllables). A quick check here and we can see the word is listed as: Fav-or-ite, which tells me it officially has three syllables. Now, if I only need two and this word is really what I want, I can use my poetic license and write “fav’rite” and my readers should still recognize the word and know it should be read with two syllables.
http://thesaurus.com/
HOW YOU CAN UTILIZE THIS SITE FOR POETRY WRITING:
You can use the online thesaurus the same way that you can a thesaurus in book form. An added bonus with this online thesaurus is that precise definitions for words can be accessed quickly at the online version, many with a single click, more with a copy and paste into dictionary.com.
http://www.youtube.com/
HOW YOU CAN UTILIZE THIS SITE FOR POETRY WRITING:
Sometimes I write about things that I know only by reputation or that I’ve not seen in a long time, but I want to use a particular scene to set a feeling. I can use this site to see pictures and videos of places to help me bring in and set the visual, which will add another clearer dimension to my poem.
Do you have an online poetry tool you use? Have you had particular success at using one of the tools above? Have you used one of the tools above in other ways? Please share in the comments box below! 
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Comments on last month's newsletter:
Comment By: jazlle hugo 
Comment: Thank you for this newsletter it gives me more information about poetry. Everything is well explained.
Comment By: Doug Rainbow
Comment: As for what it takes to "qualify" as prose poetry, I believe that the rules are like pretty girls: You need to know when to follow them and when to leave them alone.
Comment By: peach
Comment: Always my favorite newsletter. Thanks for your service - peach
Comment By: monty31802
Comment: Great newsletter, often we do not specify a prose poem such as Darius Green and His Flying Machine by Trowbridge. I looked this up on the Net and found it listed only as as poem. I remember it in a school book separated from poetry as prose.Your newsletters always a pleasure.
Comment By: Christine Cassello
Comment: This is a good explanation of prose poetry which I never understood as poetry.
Comments on my February newsletter:
Comment By: Trish
Comment: All my poems have resulted from a need to "immortalise", (for want of a better, and perhaps more mundane, word) intense feelings and emotion at two particular points in my life... I have felt the overwhelming urge to transpose these feelings into poetry, and once it is done, I find some sense of peace and the ability to rationalise the situation more clearly. In "Indulge the poet", I tried to convey the meaning of this need.
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