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10.7 Tying It All Together: Poetry as a Service
Having created the individual pieces of form and meaning from which a poem might
be crafted, it now falls to us to put the pieces together as a coherent service. To recap,
we have shown how affective metaphors are generated for a given topic, by building
on popular metaphors for that topic in the Google n-grams; shown how the feelings
evoked by these properties may be anticipated by a system; and shown how novel
insights can be crafted from a fusion of stereotypical norms and corpus evidence.
We view a poem as a summarization and visualization device that samples the
set of properties and feelings that are evoked when a topic
T
is viewed thru the lens
of
M
.Given
T
, an apt
M
is chosen randomly from
conceits
. Each line of the
text renders one or more properties in poetic form, using tropes such as simile and
hyperbolae. So, for
T
(
T
)
contains
hot
and
the Google n-grams contains the 2-gram “
burn brightly
”, this mix of elements may
be rendered as “
No fire is hotter or burns more brightly
”. It can also be rendered with
the imperative “
Burn brightly with your hot love
”, or the plea “
Let your hot love burn
brightly
”. The range of tropes is best conveyed with examples, such as this poetic
view of
marriage as a prison
:
=
love
and
M
=
fire
, since
salient
(
T
,
M
)
The legalized regime of this marriage
My marriage is an emotional prison
Barred visitors do marriages allow
The most unitary collective scarcely organizes so much
Intimidate me with the official regulation of your prison
Let your sexual degradation charm me
Did ever an offender go to a more oppressive prison?
You confine me as securely as any locked prison cell
Does any prison punish more harshly than this marriage?
You punish me with your harsh security
The most isolated prisons inflict the most difficult hardships
O Marriage, you disgust me with your undesirable security
Each poem obeys a semantic grammar, which minimally indicates the trope that
should be used for each line. Since the second-line of the grammar asks for an apt
<
,
Stereotrope
constructs one by comparing marriage to a collective; as
the second-last line asks for an apt
simile
>
, one is duly constructed around the
Google 4-gram “
most isolated and most difficult
”. The grammar may also dictate
whether a line is rendered as an assertion, an imperative, a request or a question, and
whether it is framed positively or negatively. This grammar need not be a limiting
factor, as one can choose randomly from a pool of grammars, or even evolve a new
grammar by soliciting user feedback. The key point is the pivotal role of a grammar
of tropes in mapping from the properties and feelings of a metaphor interpretation
to a sequence of poetic renderings of these elements.
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