Comments on: Get A Google Poem

Get A Google Poem

ubueditor — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:28:16 -0800

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:06:40 -0800

I don't get it. Isn't this just Google search results without links?

By: jiroczech

jiroczech — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:19:38 -0800

I had a go and tried a few and every one was shite I guess they've got some work to do. But then, it's probably not a very good idea in the first place

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:42:08 -0800

They are sort of like found poems, but infinitely crappier. Too much variety involved I suppose. It is still pretty fun to play with though, especially if your search for pr0n words and toilet humor.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:45:36 -0800

dark night, warm sun Compiled 8/20/2004 1:51:06 PM GMT - Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my ... lily's leaf or head, Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare ... to bite, Too wan for blushing and too warm for white ... - Thirty slim, dark brown girls stepped to the water's edge.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:01:50 -0800

> But then, it's probably not a very good idea in the first place The idea's not bad at all, but the implementation was often disappointing. I thought it would be much cooler than it actually turned out to be. In particular, I was hoping that the resulting poem exposed little chunks and nuggets that were consistently suggestive of poetic wordplay, but this didn't happen often. Other poem generators seem to have a built-in lexicon of stock phrases, and this is their failing — after a while, you see them repeat a few phrases over and over, and the magic bubble pops and it's no longer interesting. The strength is that phrases are chosen in advance to be fit to assemble, so for a few rounds, the output is consistent. The google poem generator has the opposite problem. It has a huge selection of phrases to work with, all of varying degress of poetic fitness. What is needed is a clever way to determine suitable phrases, extract them, and reassemble them so they fit together nicely. That sounds like a very hard job indeed, and it is the complexities of language make it so. Still, a very fun link that got me thinkin'. Thanks, ubueditor! (On preview, CunningLinguist got a pretty good one.)

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:09:47 -0800

First try too!

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:13:59 -0800

On second thought, some repetition might be useful. Racter used repetition to suggest a train of thought. I really enjoyed Racter, because it took longer for the bubble to pop, once I'd finally exhausted its templates and everything started looking the same. But for a while I'd be floored by, for example, "Why are foxes like babies? Because their hope and pessimism are momentarily frightening." ThoughtTreasure is supposed to have someserious linguistic ability also, but I haven't played with it for long enough to tap its language power.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:26:06 -0800

A-ha! Changing the pattern made a huge difference for me. Absolutely don't give up until you've tried a few different patterns. Couplets about "perpetual motion" yielded these gems (edited WAY down, and two couplets interchanged): of years of people who have promised 9,041. Time: 19:37. Zone: Heightened unworkable devices analyzed to expose Green and Ugly Trouble in Paradise over time, and mass. The staff Motion - An Ancient Mystery machine). This is a very short notice of an isolated mechanical device Motion is an internet-only radio show and the Perpetual Motion Roadshow motion machines has long been Heightened Reality. Meanwhile, on motion machine). This is a very short and clubs stage sports words art of people who have promised free logged in you would be able to see Speeding Through the Night. Click to achieve perpetual motion date back of years of people who have promised 9,041. Time: 19:37. Zone: Heightened ...and much more. I now take back everything I said about the Google poem generator. It really has the goods afterall.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:13:04 -0800

Those are pretty good. It sort of reminds me of an exercise I used to do where I would cut words from a magazine, shuffle them around in a hat and make a 'poem' by pulling them out one by one. I've still not gotten a good one. *grumbles*

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:10:24 -0800

I just put in "your kiss is so sweet" and got some great returns. On of the middle stanzas is in all caps, from a fan of Weezer. Then there's another stanza that's pulled from someone's weblog where a random commentor is telling the author how hot she looks.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:49:08 -0800

Ha, I just tried to conjure up some Cannibal Corpse-style [Warning: HORRIFYING and definitely NSFW] lyrics by using "entrails of death" (couplets), and it one-upped me and made something pretty. It might be my favorite one I've seen so far, in fact. Here's just the ending bits: - I mean, it's one Along a crowded street I walk alone a goat's entrails stuffed in or prophecy by the examination lay before them - my clutch, you leap from the shadows in which you I mean, it's one thing to report them at on a faithless heart Super-great, way beyond my expectations in every way. Anyway, I'm dominating the conversation, so I'll chill out now.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:58:41 -0800

Ironically, on my first try, I got the following lines about CunningLinguist. and 4 Guests Administrator Moderator Most users ever online was 27 on Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:53 pm Registered Users: Cunning Linguist, Ozmandius, Twiddler. ... Not only do you get the best lines, but us lesser mortals are simply given lines about you.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:38:48 -0800

... We saved the best for last, the grasshopper. I closed my eyes and dropped one in my mouth. ... It tasted like fish, not chicken! short antennae, not easily seen Size: Up to 10 mm long Backswimmer (1) swims on back large eyes occupy most of the head abdomen is like a broad ... FLASH Shockwave Flash unwary creatures. "MEGGA" My eyes are big, because I like to see what I can eat, and what might be going to eat me! "BEKUS" My beady ... ... If you've ever examined one of these waterbugs closely — the ... the posture of the shell, even when tipped, like that in the gaze of Gauguin's natives' eyes. ... They wait in ambush, hanging head down, long oar-like hind legs ready to kick swiftly into action, scanning the surrounding with their large compound eyes. ... would see that I am transparent and delicate, with two or three long tails, short antenna and bulging eyes.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:52:21 -0800

Wild phantoms on the foam Free feeling on my face Acceptance is a million ocean miles away ... storm brings the wetness of rain dripping from my hair strand ... and distant tunder but I can also feel that wind in her hair and smell of ocean... ... Wonderfull job you made here It does not matter how often I visit the ocean, it always makes me melancholic ... My dress was clinging to my legs and my hair was being whipped by the wind. ... that your hands stroked my hair, And how it felt when you breathed my name in my ears... Call me out of the ocean, Call me out of the cold hard wind Call my ... Ocean Beach. Top of the wooooooorld! Titanic pose on a Pacific rock. Wind in my hair, ocean on my lips.

By: Sonny Jim

Sonny Jim — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:33:05 -0800

I was quite impressed with this: ____________________________ Stockard Channing puts on six different accents and sticks candles on your head You're forced to gild kumquats and bay leaves and string them on a wire ____________________________ ...beats anything I've come up with myself recently.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:20:48 -0800

Sean - what did you put in as keywords?? (Plus, it must be a different CL - I have no space in my incredibly stupid screen name.)

By: Satapher

Satapher — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:26:06 -0800

combine Google Poem with cut-up.cgi and you've got Gysin smiling poetry.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 05:22:12 -0800

ozmandius