4/10/2006

Palavra de estreante

No endereço que aqui deixo, encontram-se certas curiosidades que julgo adequadas para ilustrar esta minha primeira intervenção no Cavalo de Tróia. Admito que este texto padece, enquanto prosa de estreia, de uma certa preguiça. Porém, não resisti a certas passagens da página que atrás indiquei. Exemplo:

Some people seem born with a knack for rhyme, an instinctive ear. Most of the rest of us must work at it if we want to write natural-sounding verse. Some ways of doing this are:

1. Extend your vocabulary. Play with the dictionary, learning new words and finding rhymes for them.
2. Read out loud and listen for the sound of words.
3. Read good rhyming poetry, from Ogden Nash to Yeats -- out loud.
4. Listen to all of the sound patterns in poetry, not just echoes at the end of words. Similar starting sounds are called alliteration; echoing tones in the vowel sounds are called assonance; frequent occurrence of echoing consonants (the letters that aren't vowels) is called consonance.
5. Using rhymes flexibly can keep them from being "boring." Rhymes do not have to be moon/spoon. You can try "near rhyme," like rhyming "moon" with "on" or "loaf" with "rove".


Mas o que mais me fascinou foi o exercício de aquecimento:

My own favorite "warmup exercises" are:

1. Pick six words at random and connect them.
2. Ask someone else for a first-line challenge.
3. Parody something; I'm studying sonnets by reworking Shakespeare and Wordsworth.
4. Take a walk and just write about it.

Vou experiementar as dicas e ver se resulta.