Friday, January 02, 2009

The dumbfounded jolly bird - a poem

The dumbfound jolly bird
Streaking by the seashore,
With the slowly iceberg-white leaves

Flogging while the virtuous sea
On the viperish kings star-struck
Goes to burn against the sixpenny night.



Like this poem? How about writing one yourself? It's not difficult - just t try this website:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/themes/books/dylan_thomas_rpg.shtml?



To me the computer generated poem sounds no more gibberish than some of the human-written ones - if you get enough literary critics analyzing this, they may come up with a pretty good explanation of what the poet (in this case the random poem generation program) is trying to convey :-)

No comments: