silented1 wrote:One of the things I think that I should learn is how the sounds of words flow together when writing a poem to help control the impact of lines as they speed up or slow down to make the information more or less readily available. That's close to why I want to learn it.
What's something you want to learn? Maybe we could share books that have helped us learn to write.
Oh I love using sound-related techniques in poetry! I think alliterative effects are the most flexible when it comes to changing the impact of a line. If you use alliteration with harsher consonants, you tend to get a harsher impact:
breaking the back of a bone-brick wall
Alliteration combined with sibilance (that is, any hissing consonant like 's' and 'sh' in English) gives a different effect, maybe slowing down or making a creepy atmosphere:
silence in the sirens' sorrowful sea
Can't think of any books myself at the moment, but articles on Poetry Foundation are a good source outside of YWS to start with. There's also a great section on assonance (another sound technique!) in this Knowledge Base entry: Kiss My Assonance - 5 ways to improve your poetry
I'm also interested in improving the rhythm in my poetry this year, so it's great to review all those resources I was looking at when I first started out~