Comparing automatic poetry generators

Apr 18 2012 Published by under Le Thesis,Science Wednesday

When you write, there’s usually something you want to say. Answer the good old 5W+H at least. Poetry is pretty exploratory though. When you start, you have barely a vague sense on what you’re trying to achieve. You’re conveying emotion rather than meaning. Form matters a lot as well. A lot of creative writing looks like that. [...]

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Science Wednesday: Defining poetry

Mar 28 2012 Published by under Le Thesis,Science Wednesday

Poetry is a literary form in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response. ~ Levin (1962) Poetry is simple to define –  a poem is a poem because people consider it a poem. Simple. Easy to understand. Useless. When you are studying poetry in a [...]

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Science Wednesday: Towards a computational model of poetry generation

Mar 07 2012 Published by under Le Thesis,Science Wednesday

Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation is a paper by Manurung, Ritchie and Thompson (whomever they are) published in May 2000 and so far seems to be the best starting point for my graduation thesis. There are three main parts to this story: why!? what makes it hard how it used to be done [...]

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A sonnet to Boob

May 11 2009 Published by under Uncategorized

Miss Boob, miss Boob with your shape so plump you excite and you annoy little babies, dear, are hungry so, and yet you only let men play. Like a peacock you display your warm soft charms, dear, are horrible nightmares of girls well endowed and women left behind cherrish the attention, dear, all I have [...]

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