Generate poetry
and find unexpected meaning from Google poems…
Toph Church
Topher Tune’s Times,
http://toph.blogspot.com
e-mail:
christy_church@hotmail.com
Abstract
Generate poetry and find unexpected meaning from Google poems, cut-ups
and word changes using methods freely available over the internet. What song
will you find? Will they ask you, when they hear the results, "Have you
given up on words?" "No," you'll reply, "I'm only just beginning!"
Rather than write in all earnestness with its disadvantage of
self-consciousness and difficulty, simply generate the text, using found,
search or seed text. The algorithms can
be invented in the laboratory as an advance in machine cognition or not. Simple Eliza, internet search, poem
generating, randomising, encryption, translation and word substitution
algorithms freely available over the internet can will serve, or combine them
for even more powerful effect.
Other investigators will surely find a wealth of useful algorithms not
considered here such as classic automatic writing, encryption, steganography
and exquisite corpse.
1.1 Found, Search or Seed Text
Look for words that have meaning, or not, all around. News and advertising are good sources, but
anything that has words will do, and online is as easy a place as any to find
words in manipulable form. Either be
deliberate in the choice, perhaps because of some interest, or some desire to
write in a specific language, or be completely random, whether rigorously or
casually so.
Any single words, phrases or paragraphs are sufficient to work with, as
in many cases, the result will be completely different, that is, no
recognizable words in the ouput poem relate to the input text.
1.2 Some example tools
Look for ways to publish the work, as there is potentially going to be a
lot of it. A blog will do, though a
chapbook or other paper is the only way many will recognize the work. Given internet access, an account with http://www.blogger.com/start is, well,
a good start.
Eliza software is synthetic dialog. The idea is the computer is supposed to come up with an intelligent response or question to user interaction, and a good example is on http://jabberwacky.com/ (not jabberwocky). Simple and advanced search is easy to accomplish on http://www.google.com/, and moving on to poem generator, use http://leevilehto.net/google/google.asp or one not tried lately, but recommended by another investigator, Boynton[1], http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi. A good overview on the subject appears in Experiments, http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/experiments.html, and pointers to nearly all remaining subject tools appear here. There are 72 of them. A tool that should be on the page, but may not be, is an automation of Tristan Tzara, Poème Dadaïste,
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/permutations/tzara/poeme_dadaiste.cgi,
and Free-form text permutations are also important. See http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/permutations/diy_proteus/diy_proteus.cgi.
The “Experiments” investigator has also written definitively on flarf, which
focuses on slightly improper language found all over the net and in particular,
spam, essential for the proper spirit of this kind of enterprise, http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/syllabi/readings/flarf.html.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/%7Eluoma/Lizardo.html#
has a strange mix of text, links and pictures based on the content of three web
pages entered in the form. It is not
investigated further here. One major
link is to http://www.crummy.com/devel/eater/,
which happens to be mentioned in Bernstein Experiments above. This is essential
for taking earnestly written text, such as an actual poem or something with
explosive political content such as “torture” and rendering it to something
that has the same ring and cadence, but is some way harmless or meaningless.
This is only an initial survey
of a vast resource of tools. Once
started, it is obviously difficult to stop.
So onward.
This survey is short on the work of
other poets such as Kervinen[2] and Magee[3].
More respectful writers of trends in poetry like this, and highly
committed poets themselves, are Silliman[4], Huth[5] and Piombino[6].
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Themes guns arequipa eventful.
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Makes no mistyping.
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Theoreticians gunpowder area evermore.
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Makeups no mismatching.
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What is this waste of time? Or
give me more of this. It’s up to the
investigator.
[1] Boynton, Miruner, "I rarely have a name y'know," "I rarest havana a namelessly y'knowledgeable," http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/003807.html [2] Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, a poet, and perhaps investigator of these techniques, publishes extensively on http://nonlinearpoetry.blogspot.com/ with ample links to other resources. [3] Michael Magee, My Angie Dickinson, http://myangiedickinson.blogspot.com/
[4] Ron Silliman, Silliman’s Blog, http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
[6] Nick Piombino, fait
accompli, http://nickpiombino.blogspot.com/