Chapter 2 of Electronic Literature discuses
combinatory poetics. Scott discusses the differences between the different genres
of poems and how although some could be completely random, they usually still
can make sense. The Raymond Queneau article discusses his “100,000,000,000,000
Poems” and how it consists of 10 fourteen-line sonnets. It creates an interchangeable
poem where any lines could be switched without changing the overall statement
of the poem. This poem led to the founding of the OULIPO which Queneau founded
in 1960. It also discusses Paul Braffort who created a digital format for this
poem generator. The algorithm would utilize the inputted name and the time it
took to enter the information then generate possible lines for the poem.
I like the idea behind Braffort’s digital generator that
takes the input methods and can generate possible lines to fill the poem. The
programming behind this must have taken awhile and to design it to generate legible
lines as well. The growth and expansion of this idea blow up being sponsored by
the Atelier Recherches Techniques Avancees (Advanced Technical Research
Workshop) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 1975 when this was first demonstrated,
this accomplishment must have been a turning point in reading/comprehension AI
generation at the time. Fast forward to today where some programs you can
simply type in a topic and link some sources and it will write a paper for you.
the undertakers peer and say Oho
the timid mutter into their goatees
we always hope to keep ourselves so-so
I stille can call to mind those hours of ease
those greedy mice leave nothing for the crow
going up to visit town is quite a wheeze
to pass the time we stage a little show
The brave man cries i do not care a jot
the coward mutter why was i begot?
if you drink mate you're an Argentine
Oh reader thinking thus your heart will lock
I quite forgive you when you run amok
clear from the start the ending is foreseen
Mason Sweet
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