Poetry Apps from iPad
App 1: Visual Poetry
This is a fun app where your own work can be turned into
creative visuals. You type out your poem
and then you can see it arranged in a different variety of formats that make it
look appealing. It can also be arranged
in different shapes, fonts, colours, etc.
App 2: Speak
“We Feast On Our Own Lives In These Streets”
That is a line that I got once I dragged my finger around
the screen as all the letters of the alphabet swirled around. This app was very cool and for as long as you
drag your finger around the screen, it display a long line of poetry until you
stop. You start by touching a letter,
holding your finger on it and drag it around the screen, which automatically
generates a line of poetry. Once again,
I found it to be another creative app that I really liked. It entices the mind and makes you not want to
stop using the App.
App 3: Rattlesnakes
This poem was eerie.
It displayed the words on the screen with creepy music when you tapped
the screen and the sound of rattlesnakes every few seconds. The poem was very interesting and titled “The
Summer the Rattlesnakes Came”. The iPad
volume was on the loudest it could be and was a little startling when the
haunting sounds of the rattlesnakes came.
Everytime the screen was tapped, the poem would display weirdly on the
screen. Not my favourite app, but still
a creative one.
App 4: Poetry Creator
This was a fun app which was similar to an activity we did
in class on the first day, by taking selected words from one poem and using
them to create your own poem. This was
my first introduction on how creativity can be incorporated into poetry. As I explored this particular app, I was
drawn to it right away and it was the app that I spent the most time using out
of all. I liked how you could drag the
words around and make your own little poems, and if the word you needed was not
there, you get 10 chances to create your own words. This is what I created with this app:
Remember to smile before you go
The lowering will be short
The fountains plumping as all flows
Her alarmed rings appeared fifteen
The Poetry Creator app sounds really similar to the Versus poetry app - it's so fun to be creative but also challenging because of the word limitations! Its difficult to make all the lines correlate to each other. Do they seem to give you a theme of words or were they just random?
ReplyDeleteI've experienced Rattlesnakes myself.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the use of sound, text, and display to create a unique emotional connection to the reader.
On a subjective level, did you find that, when you were reading, the SOUND of the rattlesnakes became more unsettling the longer you read?
I found that to be very true, and It would be cool to get another opinion.