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humanodon · 4073 days ago · link · · parent · post: Randomly Generated Poem: Solitude | The Blogature of Henry David Thoreau
I don't know that this is truly a "randomly generated poem" as the source material was selected and selected from. Generally, when a poem (or part of the poem anyway) is constructed out of stuff that one has not written themselves, it's called a "found poem". People have differing opinions of the merits of found poetry, but personally I think it's as valid as anything else. The ending is nice.
user-inactivated · 4073 days ago · link ·
That's actually something I'm going to be discussing in the assignment. As defined by my professor, this is "randomly generated". But I'm curating what goes into the generator. So the flow of the text may be random, but the meaning is still constructed by the writer, making it not that random at all.