Young Writers Society

Hey, izanami! Today I'll be reviewing this poem because I thought it looked really cool. I'll be ditching my usual formula and revert to positive/negative for this. Here we go!

*Translation for reference:
coded
all i am is a person,
created by robots,
raised by aliens,
friends with flaws.
that's why i claim i'm a demon,
since they are perfect,
yet very flawed.
but that's not who i am.
so i will show you all
who i really am and can be.
but no one will truly know
all of me and what's inside.

G O S H this is old

I really am, exceedingly impressed by this poem. I never imagined that I would encounter such a binary code poem. I guess if I were a cyborg or an AI of some kind I could readily comprehend the message.

But no matter! The visual display is absolutely splendid and literally left me speechless. I think that you have hit upon something extraordinary that will soon catch fire all over the world and very soon we will see anthologies of binary-coded poems and who knows, ever full-flegged novels!

Thanks for sharing this fine work of art. Looking forward to reading more of your innovative poetry.

BTW

Here is my review in Binary Code
Please feel free to Enjoy!

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Quick question, do the 0s and 1s actually mean something in binary? Or are they random?

Hi! Danni here for a #SadPanda review!
Firstly I have to say I was learning about binary in school today and it was really hard and I saw this and thought, I must give this a go.
This was really good! I liked the way the font it was written in looked kinda computery. Good idea that.
I also like the way the words are emotional but then go onto 01 blah blah blah blah. I’d be interested to know what it really says.
Nitpicks:
Uh...... none. It was great.
Keep ip the good work!

Danni

I Love this concept DG. Really neat to do a poem incorporating binary! It reminds me of a really interesting poem by @Demeter haiku for the shipwrecked and then a more recent fabulous poem by @Querencia which also incorporated morse code (work/Querencia/-------Rebecca-137579#c631129).

Reception
It is a bit cumbersome to translate so many words in it though, even with the translating converters out there - and I'm not sure the pay-off is so great because the words are so simple?

I have a few suggestions on this poem that are more conceptual, since this isn't the type of poem that really needs flow, formatting, or grammar critique.

I think this poem would be more powerful if you did either of these things

Suggestions
1) Make the theme something more about identity tied to technology or about not being able to reveal yourself - so that the process of having to translate the poem, ends up giving insight into the actual theme of the poem. Like the process would mimic the content.

or

2) Maybe you could make the poem have a few less binary words and choose ones that really have bigger pay off - like the word "coded" or "identity" or "life". For some reason, the words chosen just don't seem to be that significant. And if the words were all written in English I don't think this poem would be too remarkable. Which ends up making the binary seem like a gimmick rather than an asset or integral part of how we understand the piece.

or

3) Another thing you could play with is making a poem that could be understood with or without translating the words. As is, you left out all of the end nouns and adjectives so a person couldn't just skim the English and get any clue what was being said. If there was more substantial English portions, this poem could be appreciated from two levels - the binary and the written out text.

Potential Problems & Cohesion
Those are all my suggestions I guess, and to be clear, I think this concept is extremely neat - I just think it could be taken to another level. I've tried my hand at coded poems before (ineffable) and it received some of the most mixed reviews of any of my pieces. The thing with coded poems, is it's almost like making an acrostic or a shape poem - sometimes people will get really hung up on the gimmick and not give it a chance to begin with and sometimes people won't be able to read past the gimmick to the actual content of the piece, but ideally both the "gimmick" and the "content" are working in unison so that a person is more likely to fully appreciate both as a finished product.

Best of luck in all of your writing, and if you have any comments or questions about my review I'd love to hear them!

~alliyah

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