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> It's like taking a poem and generating another poem of a different author based on phonemes alone). There is already a school of poetry that does this. For t
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
> It's like taking a poem and generating another poem of a different author based on phonemes alone).
There is already a school of poetry that does this. For the LANGUAGE poets, meaning is often secondary, what is really of interest is the permutations of existing material. As an example, see [1] where Charles Bernstein creates an English poem by choosing words that sound similar (but don't mean anything similar) to the German words in Heinrich Heine’s classic poem "Lorelei".
[1] https://jacket2.org/commentary/lorelei-heine-translations-shadowtime https://jacket2.org/commentary/lorelei-heine-translations-sh...