• Shakespeare, Donne, and the Venus and Adonis stanza

    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 21 15:48:33 2025
    XPost: alt.arts.poetry, alt.arts.poetry.comments

    I had an interesting conversation this morning with my "trusted source"
    for poetry, which I'll introduce: X's AI, Grok. What happened was:

    I was adding a poem to PPB which uses the Venus and Adonis stanza, and I noticed that my Penny's Poetry Pages wiki article on the stanza (which
    I'd written years ago) claimed that Donne's poem "The Expiration" used
    the stanza before Shakespeare did. That looked wrong to me, so (rather
    than search for the information myself) I asked Grok, let him do the
    searching, and spent a fun half-hour discussing it with him. The bottom
    line was that I changed only one line in the wiki (to read that Donne "possibly" wrote his poem before Shakespeare published his). but the conversation was worth it. Here's a link to it (which I hope stays up):

    https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1903089111889588654

    I recommend that those interested in scholarship use Grok, who's a great
    source of information (though he can be wrong too). X is free to use
    (though I pay $8 a month for a blue check just to support X, a site I
    admire).

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  • From MummyChunk@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 21 12:44:39 2025
    George J. Dance wrote:
    I had an interesting conversation this morning with my "trusted source"
    for poetry, which I'll introduce: X's AI, Grok. What happened was:

    I was adding a poem to PPB which uses the Venus and Adonis stanza, and I noticed that my Penny's Poetry Pages wiki article on the stanza (which
    I'd written years ago) claimed that Donne's poem "The Expiration" used
    the stanza before Shakespeare did. That looked wrong to me, so (rather
    than search for the information myself) I asked Grok, let him do the searching, and spent a fun half-hour discussing it with him. The bottom
    line was that I changed only one line in the wiki (to read that Donne "possibly" wrote his poem before Shakespeare published his). but the conversation was worth it. Here's a link to it (which I hope stays up):

    https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1903089111889588654

    I recommend that those interested in scholarship use Grok, who's a great source of information (though he can be wrong too). X is free to use
    (though I pay $8 a month for a blue check just to support X, a site I admire).



    Interesting read. Thanks George!


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  • From Will-Dockery@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 22 17:37:30 2025
    MummyChunk wrote:
    Interesting read. Thanks George!




    Again, agreed.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=685997072#685997072

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