Poem, rhyme, stanza, foot
The other day, I was driving home from work and half-listening to NPR when I heard the speaker mention something about a "poetry ontology." (In information science, an ontology is a map of relationships between major concepts in a subject area.)
"How interesting!" I thought, "Poetry seems like an unlikely subject for an ontology, but that could be really fascinating."
And then I realized Andrei Codrescu's (who has a strong Romanian accent) was actually talking about a "poetry anthology."
(But I'm still thinking about poetry ontologies.)
3 Comments:
As Henry Green would agree, sometimes miscommunications are the most interesting kind.
That. Is. Awesome.
That is perhaps the best definition of ontology that I've ever read. I'm going to post that at my workstation when we start to rebuild our taxonomy--I mean, move from a taxonomy to an ontology, as Ilmer likes to say. Oh, this summer is going to be fun!
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