Date: Fall 2020
View the code associated with this project – and a sample output
In this project, I used a grammar parser and rule system designed by Professor James Ryan to create a pamphlet of sonnets and free verse poems. I wrote rules for creating technically correct sonnets and less structured free verse poems from a corpus of words separated by part of speech and number of syllables. The PDF generator also uses a logic system to include an image with each poem. This is the only large project I have created that uses computational techniques to generate creative textual output. It combined words and phrases in unique ways that I would never have myself because of linguistic conventions that I have been taught since birth. However, once the program generated these unusual word combinations human creativity can find meaning in them.
