Usher Alexis James
ENGH 377
Generated Text
6/6/21

Attempt 1:
I captured what it's like
between time a pop of patterns
in patternless dimensions that's waiting
forming sinking.
In wonder the lines
of absence and elements dissipate
into Radiating blackholes
bulging dark light
of nebulas new and excitement.
In the midst of nothing
and everything,
fission fractals of the
world,
still the wonder
inside of streams
mono white.
grey splatter of
pasty white inside
heated light and color;
trapped, waiting, viewing
of new boundaries
mold of time.
(using WpN, one of my original poems, and stanzas from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: "Faces" and "All Is Truth;" I did it wrong I think because these are all just words from my original poem rearranged)

Attempt 2:
I sinking what it's handsome
light soul immobile pop of viewing
in singing citizens that's blanch
white country.
In the extravagant
of new and knife soul
into spiritual beautiful
world by withdrawn
of yearning immobile and boundaries.
In the face of nothing
and boundaries,
pasty benevolent of the
rock,
citizens the everything
viewing of spiritual
infants between.
lines handsome of
questioning beautiful precision
country singing and splatter;
immobile, rock, citizens
of mother extravagant
'd of citizens.
(using WpN, one of my original poems, and stanzas from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: "Faces" and "All Is Truth;" this time I didn't edit anything and it's using words from all texts)

Attempt 3:
I mold what it's children
wings sinking precision pop of castrated
in lines artist that's time
dream children.
In grand the hawk
of veneration and-top broad
into dimensions an
excitement spiritual his
of an children and pavement.
In the thongs of nothing
and face,
sacred-prescient of the
sinking,
riding the gelder
between of faces
midst boundaries.
his wonder of
'd waiting suavity
stallion be and-road;
ugly, an, wonder
of brows trapped
by of streams.
(using WpN, one of my original poems, and stanzas from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: "Faces" and "All Is Truth;" I didn't edit anything again this time and it's using words from all texts; plus, my favorite line: "In the thongs of nothing")

Attempt 4:
I despised what it's forming
bulging broad pop of precision
in patternless patterns that's trapped
inside boundaries.
In between the dream
of faces and friendship illuminated
into common color
pure
of ideality and excitement.
In the wonder of nothing
and everything,
absence of the
world,
like the mold
of sinking
soul despised.
natural bad of
castrated citizens midst
immobile judges and lawyers;
Faces
of sinking rock
fishers of light.
(using WpN, one of my original poems, and stanzas from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: "Faces" and "All Is Truth;" latest edited poem)

Explanation:
I decided to go with the more difficult of the text generators, the WpN text generator, in which one could utilize several components. Although I am not completely sure whether or not I was using this generator completely correctly, I decided to post my four out of five of my attempts considering the complexity of the generator I used. I used one of my own original poems and stanzas from the poems "Faces" and "All Is Truth" from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. I used my original poem as a template, "Faces" as the input text and "All Is Truth" for the static words box. For attempt one, I was initially playing around with the controls and ended up setting it up so that only the words from my original poem were being used as static words. Though I did not notice until after I had finished, it was still interesting to see how the words from my own poem could be rearranged in my poem. For the second and third attempts, I set the settings back to how they originally were and let the generator work its own magic and got some pretty interesting results - particularly, in attempt three. Attempt four is the attempt where I think that I began to get a better grasp for how the text generator works as I used words from both the template and input texts this time though I did go through and choose/omit words myself this time to come up with the result.

I think that this generator offers a lot in terms of customization as well as just seeing what the generator itself comes up with. However, I'm not sure whether or not I feel like the author of these works. I think that perhaps I feel more like the author in regard to attempt one since it ended up being my words that were used for the rearranging and the overall theme of the poem is the same, but there is also a sort of disconnect as the final poem doesn't necessarily feel like something I would write at least in the way that some of the words and lines are organized. Attempts two and three are the furthest from me in terms of my style of writing even though my poem was used as the template for them perhaps because of the words and the way that the poems don't necessarily make sense. My final attempt does seem like I would write in terms of the overall abstract, somewhat philosophical theme within the poem. However, like with attempts two and three, there is a bit of disconnect since I know that not all of these words are my words. On the other hand, there is the feeling that I have created something new even just rearranging my own words, so in that way I could have a feeling of authorship over these works.