This document is a student paper submitted to the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhaji Bhavnagar University. It discusses the topic of poems written by machines. It provides background on early machines like the 1845 Eureka poetry generator. It also profiles modern programmers who have developed algorithms to analyze large datasets like Twitter posts and generate poetic forms like sonnets based on patterns identified in the source material. Code samples are provided and the document concludes by generating a sample sonnet using an online poetry generator.
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Literary Criticism and Indian Poetics
2. Name :- Nirali Makvana
Sem :- 2 ( 2019 - 20 )
Roll no. :- 15
Subject :- Literary Criticism and Indian
Poetics
Topic :- Poems written by Machines
Submitted to :- Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhaji
Bhavnagar university
Enrollment no. :- 2069108420200023
3. Poems Written by Machines
Computer science is an art
form of words and
punctuation, thoughtfully
placed and goal oriented.
4. A machine can do this but can it do that ? The
that is often an achievement that strikes us as
strongly connected to emotions that seems
especially in human.
Programming has it own sense of minimatalist
aesthetics, born of the imparative to create
software that doesn't take up much space and
doesn't take long to executed
5. Brief introduction about founder of poetry Program
Ranjit Bhatnagar
He is an artist and Programmer. In 2012
he invented Pentametron, an art project
that mines the Twittersphere for tweets in
iambic pentameter. He built a program to
count syllables and recognize meter.
Then with a separate piece of code to
identify rhythm, he started to assemble
Sonnets
6. Marjan Ghazvininejad
In 2015, Marjan Ghazvininejad, one of
Knights graduate student, began working
on Hafez, a program used to generate
Sonnets and other poetic forms after the
fourteenth century Persian Lyricist. There
were two parts of her project. First,
Codifying the rules for compositions the
template that every sonnet would fit, then
deciding what to put in the template.
7. Behold the Amazing Poetry generaring machine
In 1845, investor John
Clark debuted his Eureka
machine at the Egyptian
hall in Piccadily,
London. For the price of 1
Shilling.
11. Now let us see Practically.
How to create poems
through computer
generator?
https://www.poem-
generator.org.uk/quick/
Follows the given
instructions and click on
Write me a poem.
12. Here is the Sonnet created by computer
generator.
13. References
Siegel, Robert.All Tech Considered. 27 June 2016. 27 February 2020
<https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/27/480639265/human-
or-machine-can-you-tell-who-wrote-these-poems>.
HENRICKSON, LEAH. Behold The Amazing Poetry Generating
Machine ! 29 August 2017. 27 February 2020
<https://slate.com/technology/2017/08/behold-the-amazing-poetry-
generating-machine.html>.
Rockmore, Dan. THE NEW YORKER. 07 January 2020. 27 February
2020 < https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-
mecanical-muse>.