This file provides you with Javascripts meant to produce poetry and narrative. Given a tradition like that of
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or approaches like that of the so called
Active Imagination by C.G.Jung, as long as you are a creative person and you have some real interest either in literature or in
creative writing (for of course if you have no interest whatsoever in these subjects, it is probably useless for you to use this file at all), the tools you can find here will help you develop this creativity of yours.
Have you ever noticed new unexpected combinations of adjectives and names, that you never thought about before, and that startle you when you read or find them?
With these javascripts you can
intentionally probe and produce thousands if not
millions of such combinations and verify which ones you like best: a few of such random combinations may stand indeed as remarkably beautiful poetic lines worth of the best among our poets.
You are to discover with just a few attempts that there is a whole world of
potential hidden meanings in whatever language - though of course this file is written in english, which is not my native tongue and yet is the most widespread and understood language.
You will also be able to produce entirely meaningless words, though with specific bounds such as that a determined amount of vowels must be present in every word or that no
consecutive identical chars should appear in a word, and many other similar constraints to meet your requirements; even producing meaningless words is less trivial an approach to creativity than you may suspect because
also by reading apparently meaningless words you can greatly stimulate your literary fantasy and get
sudden inspiration by new strange words (after all reading a Bible book like the Numbers provides you with tons of such apparently meaningless names, and yet they all seem evocative in an
eerie way).
But, as said, this file provides you also with tools to shuffle
meaningful words and
adjectives so to yield new unexpected and poetical combinations
resounding with arcane or profound new meanings.
You can use for such purpose either texts provided by yourself, or you can extract from this very same file, via javascript, poetry from
Shakespeare's sonnets and/or from the
Psalms and shuffle their words so to see what
fascinating new combinations can derive from the process of
blending and stirring them together as a barman would shaker a drink of words to produce appetizers of poetry.
The first section deals with producing random words, the
second section at bottom with producing shuffled
meaningful terms.
Enjoy yourself with these javascripts, and unleash your creativity by seeing
what immense a world of hidden meanings and poetry is out there in the words you use every day (wasn't J.P. Sartre who even titled one of his books «Words»?), or under the surface of our ordinary lexicons, if you only start reading things with an unconventional perspective and you get less afraid of experimenting.
Not that I deem experimentalism as particularly worth, but if you
try to mix Shakespeare's sonnets with the Psalms, and then
suffle all the aligned words, you'll soon realize what I mean - and that several amazing combinations are clearly
well beyond mere or fruitless experimentalism: they radiate
truly poetic sense.
Thus, this file may even help you develop a
keener sensitivity for words and the
potential poetry which is in them - which, after all, is a path to that enlightenment that Buddhists dubbed:
awakening, for it will make you more aware about the
hidden metaphors that endlessly spring within our souls, because after all words and their combinations assume meanings only insofar we ourselves are able to provide
the former with the latter.
Plato was right: we have living
myths within.
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You can use the next form in the following manners:
- Paste in the textarea the texts you prefer, or directly type in it them, and then use the form to manipulate them.
- Load in the textarea excerpts from Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Extract and load one whole sonnet providing its number, and then manipulate it.
- Extract and load random whole lines from random sonnets, and then manipulate them.
- Extract and load random words from random sonnets, and then manipulate them.
- Load in the textarea excerpts from the Psalms.
- Extract and load one whole Psalm providing its number, and then manipulate it.
- Extract and load random whole lines from random Psalms, and then manipulate them.
- Extract and load random words from random Psalms, and then manipulate them.
- Mix the above combinations thus yielding a random text extracted from Shakespeare's sonnets and the Psalms both.
By the way, if you want to read the whole sonnets or Psalms in standalone windows, here are their addresses: Shakespeare's Sonnets and The Psalms.
An example of how a simple and yet deeply suggestive poem,
full of eerie echoes, or even sort of a buddhist
koan, can be produced using and elaborating a bit on your own with these javascript instruments by refining yourself the outputs, can be:
You Who March
With The Tongues
Of Dead Lovers:
Gaudy Thy Days
When Thou Shall,
No Longer Resigned,
Like A Glutton In True Abundance,
With Riper Eyes
Along Mightier Congregation
And Graver Counsel,
Humbled Come To
Those Unfettered Rivers
Whose Unanswered Flow
Shall Not Perish
Before Spring Arrives.
Mmmh. Somewhat interesting indeed, isn 't it?
Poetry is
reception.
If you want, by the way, click the next link see how surfers may have fun with this tool, and at the same time produce strangely fascinating poetic lines:
The Poets of Chaos