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William Carlos Williams - On poems as machines made out of words

To make two bold statements: There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there's nothing sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is redundant. Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a ship. But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. As in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

From: Williams's introduction to The Wedge, in Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (NY: New Directions, 1969), p. 256.

This is just to say

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

and which you were probably saving For breakfast

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

Notes

Set a challenge for myself to design a computational poetry class.

Penn Tags

Alphabetical list of PENN part-of-speech tags
http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/Mutbl/course/penn.html <-- a good list with examples
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/ccalas/tagsets/upenn.html <-- another great list with examples

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