Is it possible to change styles?

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Is it possible to change styles?

Tais
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since 2004-01-28

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Ontario, Canada

0 posted 2004-01-30 11:34 AM

I was wondering if it is possible for poets to change the way they write.
For example: I tend to use technical terms like: extract, condense, etc using these in a 'feeling' way, not chemical. But because of my background, these words keep popping up all the time as alternative voaculary words.
How can I enrich my vocabulary, where I will see the difference in the poetry I write?

I know that reading more is one solution. But are there other solutions?

Thanks

Tais

Alicat
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1 posted 2004-01-30 12:05 PM

Absolutely. One method is to picture an event or person in an event mentally, place yourself most delicately within their shoes, then write something from their perspective, with their vocabulary, seen from their eyes. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Sunshine

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2 posted 2004-01-30 12:10 PM

...and utilize your Thesaurus.

Marshalzu

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since 2001-02-15

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3 posted 2004-01-30 12:17 PM

Try different forms, you might have trouble incorporating some of your normal vocabulary into more traditional forms.

Tais
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since 2004-01-28

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Ontario, Canada

4 posted 2004-01-30 01:31 PM

Dear Alicat, Sunshine and Marshalzur,

Thank you for the help.

And I will try all three.

I'll post my new poems when I finish them, and will post what I did to make them different from my usual writes.

Once again, thank you!

Tais

Jamie
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since 2000-06-26

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5 posted 2004-01-30 09:56 PM

read.
then read some more.
and when you think you can't stomach anymore reading?

Yep.

Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

6 posted 2004-01-31 12:56 PM

Travel, travel, travel.

Go to the art museum, visit different countries, read the notes at national parks and museums, listen to all kinds of different music, they all can enhance ones creativity so much, yay!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

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