[‘i’, ‘feelings’, ‘to’, ‘hold’]
i feelings to hold
i feelings hold to
i to feelings hold
i to hold feelings
i hold feelings to
i hold to feelings
feelings i to hold
feelings i hold to
feelings to i hold
feelings to hold i
feelings hold i to
feelings hold to i
to i feelings hold
to i hold feelings
to feelings i hold
to feelings hold i
to hold i feelings
to hold feelings i
hold i feelings to
hold i to feelings
hold feelings i to
hold feelings to i
hold to i feelings
hold to feelings i
For the midterm, I generated a series of poems that pull from Gertrude Stein‘s the Making of Americans. The program searches an excerpt of her text and stores all the words containing “ing” and are five letters or longer. One is chosen at random as well as four or five words of my own devising to create a phrase, which is then iterated over and over in all the possible permutations. I call them: word forWor(l)ds, computer generated poems, comprised of every possible combination of words in the phrase.
[‘they’, ‘\neverything.’, ‘is’, ‘real’]
they
everything. is real
they
everything. real is
they is
everything. real
they is real
everything.
they real
everything. is
they real is
everything.
everything. they is real
everything. they real is
everything. is they real
everything. is real they
everything. real they is
everything. real is they
is they
everything. real
is they real
everything.
is
everything. they real
is
everything. real they
is real they
everything.
is real
everything. they
real they
everything. is
real they is
everything.
real
everything. they is
real
everything. is they
real is they
everything.
real is
everything. they
[‘i’, ‘understanding,’, ‘to’, ‘frame’, ‘or whatever’]
i understanding, to frame or whatever
i understanding, to or whatever frame
i understanding, frame to or whatever
i understanding, frame or whatever to
i understanding, or whatever to frame
i understanding, or whatever frame to
i to understanding, frame or whatever
i to understanding, or whatever frame
i to frame understanding, or whatever
i to frame or whatever understanding,
i to or whatever understanding, frame
i to or whatever frame understanding,
i frame understanding, to or whatever
i frame understanding, or whatever to
i frame to understanding, or whatever
i frame to or whatever understanding,
i frame or whatever understanding, to
i frame or whatever to understanding,
i or whatever understanding, to frame
i or whatever understanding, frame to
i or whatever to understanding, frame
i or whatever to frame understanding,
i or whatever frame understanding, to
i or whatever frame to understanding,
understanding, i to frame or whatever
understanding, i to or whatever frame
understanding, i frame to or whatever
understanding, i frame or whatever to
understanding, i or whatever to frame
understanding, i or whatever frame to
understanding, to i frame or whatever
understanding, to i or whatever frame
understanding, to frame i or whatever
understanding, to frame or whatever i
understanding, to or whatever i frame
understanding, to or whatever frame i
understanding, frame i to or whatever
understanding, frame i or whatever to
understanding, frame to i or whatever
understanding, frame to or whatever i
understanding, frame or whatever i to
understanding, frame or whatever to i
understanding, or whatever i to frame
understanding, or whatever i frame to
understanding, or whatever to i frame
understanding, or whatever to frame i
understanding, or whatever frame i to
understanding, or whatever frame to i
to i understanding, frame or whatever
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to i frame understanding, or whatever
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The program pulls randomly from five lists each containing a different category of words. One of the lists itself is called at random. This contains the words: not, or, maybe, if and or whatever in order to create an instability in the phrase being generated. The key python function the form relies on is iteratools permutations – probably my favorite piece of code ever written. I have a feeling I’m going to be using it a lot.
I did not strip or sort through the line breaks, capitalization and other formatting differences in the Stein text because I liked the way it could act on the text breaking up the rhythm both visually and verbally. Also, gives a nice trace of computer speak like the following poem with the “\n” which we all know means “new line”.
[‘you’, ‘\ndescribing,’, ‘to’, ‘love’]
you
describing, to love
you
describing, love to
you to
describing, love
you to love
describing,
you love
describing, to
you love to
describing,
describing, you to love
describing, you love to
describing, to you love
describing, to love you
describing, love you to
describing, love to you
to you
describing, love
to you love
describing,
to
describing, you love
to
describing, love you
to love you
describing,
to love
describing, you
love you
describing, to
love you to
describing,
love
describing, you to
love
describing, to you
love to you
describing,
love to
describing, you
