Matthew Clapham
Dec 15, 2024

Also, Linda, I feel that its sense ties in with its primitive origins: it is about the sounds of words, how they combine and make us feel. Poetry is verbal music, but it's not created to a specific set of mathematical scales like actual music.

AI can learn the rules of composition, and produce 'happy song' based on mathematical analysis, or 'dreamy song', or 'spiritual choral', without having any sense of why or how the effects work.

But poetry, without ears (external or internal) and a heart that has felt loss and joy, simply doesn't work.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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