"The longest poem in the world" is a King Gelsall designed and created by a 22-year-old Romanian student using the network technology product-Weibo. Founded in 1 1 century, it is a poem praising heroes in the form of folk rap. Not counting the prose part of this long poem, the epic part has more than1.5000 lines. 150,000 words.
Epic is extremely rich in content, which studies the politics, economy, military, religion, language and customs of ancient Tibet? An encyclopedia? .
Prior to this, people thought that the 400,000-line epic Hammer balata, written by the ancient Indian poet Piedi from 400 BC to 150 BC, was the longest poem in the world. And Fichet of Liverpool, England, spent 40 years writing the poem 129807, praising the life story of King Alfred of England. Later, editor Liske wrote 2585 lines for him. As the end of the story, this long book is the longest poem written in English.
King Gelsall's Creative Background
Andre, the founder of this website? Giorgio, a 22-year-old Romanian student, worked in an Internet company named MB Dragan in Romania in August 2009. He is neither an amateur poet nor a poetry lover. He just had a whim in a boring afternoon and then spent a weekend designing this website. Since then, he has started to use Twitter to collect poems from all over the world.
According to Andre? Georg's design, this website has an automatic crawling function: every day, sentences with the required length (usually between 5- 15 words) are randomly extracted from the texts uploaded by all other Twitter users. At the same time, in order to meet the basic requirements of "poetry", this website will automatically combine the extracted sentences according to rhyme. "Usually, two sentences form a pair. If there is no pair at this moment, the system will wait until the next sentence with this rhyme appears. "
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Those poems are almost all in the vernacular: "What a dull meeting, it was on Friday morning." "It takes three hours to drive home, and it's gray." "My eyes hurt so much that I can't sleep." The sentence "The Lord is a bonfire, and now he says he loves me" is quite good. After all, the "authors" of these short sentences don't even know that their chats and complaints will be extracted by such a system to form the "longest poem" written on Twitter.
Contrastive epic
"4000 lines a day" is just the number when the Daily Telegraph reported this network miracle. With the popularity of the Twitter website named "The Longest Poetry in the World", the update speed of long poems seems to be increasing day by day: from August 2 1 day, London time, the Daily Telegraph reported the incident to August 28, 2009 (time difference 8. From about 364,000 lines to nearly 374,000 lines-about 6.5438+10,000 lines, with an average daily line of about 6.5438+0.4 million lines. Although there is still a big gap compared with the real "world's longest poem" and China's epic "King Gelsall", at this rate, the day of catching up is just around the corner.
Science fiction poetry cloud
Obviously, such a long poem is not a literary work in the strict sense. 1997 Liu, a famous science fiction writer in China, wrote a science fiction novel "Poetry Cloud". In this novel, Liu boldly imagined a "nebula with a diameter of10 billion kilometers, which contains all possible poems". Through a super "poetry-singing software", all the materials in the solar system are combined into astronomical figures of all the characters, thus producing real poetry-this idea is not grand.
At the beginning of this science fiction novel, a famous allusion was mentioned: If a monkey is allowed to play with a printer and press a few keys at will, it can also produce a complete works of Shakespeare as long as it is given enough time. Will this super-long poem, which is constantly being born through systematic random capture, one day realize China's bold vision of science fiction to some extent?
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Technical culture
Theoretically, this way of realizing art through technology is feasible, but the probability of getting real literary works is extremely small and can be ignored.
"Some poems written by modern people can't tell whether they are written by computers. But if you let a computer write a poem of Li Bai's level, no computer in the world can do it. You make it easy for the computer to draw a modern painting and make it easy for it to draw the Mona Lisa. Is this sad? People think they have reached the highest level of civilization development, but they cannot reproduce the art of ancient times. It seems that the higher the technology, the lower the art. " -Writer Liu
latest development
373,966 sentences, this is the latest writing progress of "the longest poem in the world" on the 28th.
It is estimated that since its birth at the end of last year, this long poem has been "created" at an average rate of about10.4 million lines per day. This miracle happened right under our eyes, with the help of one of the latest products of network technology: Weibo, which is also known to netizens as Weibo.
65,438+04,000 lines per day will soon catch up with King Gelsall.
"4000 lines a day" is just the number when the British "Daily Telegraph" reported this network miracle. With the Twitter website named "The Longest Poem in the World" becoming more and more famous, the update speed of long poems seems to be increasing day by day: According to the British Daily Telegraph on August 265, London time 438+0, by the time of press release on August 28 (8-hour time difference), it had soared by about 6,543,800 lines in just seven days, with an average of about 654.38+ 0 per day. More than 370,000 lines, although far from the real "longest poem in the world" and China's epic "King Gelsall" with a million lines, at this speed, the day of catching up is just around the corner.