I’m a pretty good poet. I usually don’t share my poetry except with close friends, but take my word for it, my poetry is good enough that I think the majority of people who heard it would like it. What am I tracking when I write a poem?
Well, it happens almost automatically—if I have inspiration, the poem just comes out; if I don’t have inspiration, I can sort of try to write something but it doesn’t work. So it’s a partly subconscious process already and not necessarily something that can be analyzed like this; but I know at the very least I am tracking meter, rhyme, and alliteration.
It seems like, if this hypothesis is correct, there must be other things I am tracking—you can be great at meter, rhyme, and alliteration and not make a very interesting poem—but I’m not sure what else.
Style and themes, perhaps. But both of those are very “needs a neural net to recognize and can’t be explicitly defined” things.
I’m a pretty good poet. I usually don’t share my poetry except with close friends, but take my word for it, my poetry is good enough that I think the majority of people who heard it would like it. What am I tracking when I write a poem?
Well, it happens almost automatically—if I have inspiration, the poem just comes out; if I don’t have inspiration, I can sort of try to write something but it doesn’t work. So it’s a partly subconscious process already and not necessarily something that can be analyzed like this; but I know at the very least I am tracking meter, rhyme, and alliteration.
It seems like, if this hypothesis is correct, there must be other things I am tracking—you can be great at meter, rhyme, and alliteration and not make a very interesting poem—but I’m not sure what else.
Style and themes, perhaps. But both of those are very “needs a neural net to recognize and can’t be explicitly defined” things.