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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.04,0:00:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad Ali spent years training\Nto become the greatest boxer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.07,0:00:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world had ever seen,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.52,0:00:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only moments to create\Nthe shortest poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.15,0:00:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ali captivated Harvard's \Ngraduating class in 1975
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.25,0:00:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with his message of unity and friendship.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.68,0:00:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he finished, \Nthe audience wanted more.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.37,0:00:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They wanted a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.06,0:00:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ali delivered what is considered\Nthe shortest poem ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.96,0:00:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Me, we."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.66,0:00:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or is it "me, weeee"?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.27,0:00:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one's really sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.48,0:00:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regardless, if these two words are a poem,\Nthen what exactly makes a poem a poem?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.47,0:00:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poets themselves have struggled\Nwith this question,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.10,0:00:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often using metaphors to approximate\Na definition.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.60,0:00:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is a poem a little machine?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.68,0:00:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A firework?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.76,0:00:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An echo?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.82,0:00:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A dream?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.01,0:01:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry generally has certain\Nrecognizable characteristics.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.35,0:01:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One - poems emphasize language's\Nmusical qualities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.55,0:01:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This can be achieved through\Nrhyme, rhythm, and meter,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.48,0:01:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the sonnets of Shakepeare,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.98,0:01:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the odes of Confucius,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.54,0:01:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Sanskrit Vedas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.85,0:01:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two - poems use condensed language,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.56,0:01:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like literature with all the water\Nwrung out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.49,0:01:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three - poems often feature\Nintense feelings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.87,0:01:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Rumi's spiritual poetry
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.88,0:01:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to an Onion."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.31,0:01:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry, like art itself, has a way\Nof challenging simple definitions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.88,0:01:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the rhythmic patterns \Nof the earliest poems
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.30,0:01:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were a way to remember stories\Neven before the advent of writing,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.16,0:01:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a poem doesn't need to be lyrical.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.70,0:01:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reinhard Döhl's “Apfel”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.25,0:01:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Eugen Gomringer's "silencio"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.65,0:01:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toe the line between visual art\Nand poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.16,0:01:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, E.E. Cummings wrote poems\Nwhose shapes were as important
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.56,0:01:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the words themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.42,0:02:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this case amplifying the sad loneliness\Nof a single leaf falling through space.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.91,0:02:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the visual nature of poetry\Nfaded into the background,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.57,0:02:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps we'd be left with music,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.99,0:02:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's an area that people\Nlove to debate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.60,0:02:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are songs poems?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.67,0:02:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many don't regard songwriters as poets\Nin a literary sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.19,0:02:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but lyrics from artists like Paul Simon,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.69,0:02:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bob Dylan,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.79,0:02:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Tupac Shakur
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.16,0:02:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often hold up even without the music.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.83,0:02:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In rap, poet elements like rhyme,\Nrhythm, and imagery
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.05,0:02:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are inseparable from the form.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.53,0:02:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take this lyric from the Notorious B.I.G.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.36,0:02:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I can hear sweat trickling \Ndown your cheek
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.73,0:02:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your heartbeat sound \Nlike Sasquatch feet
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.02,0:02:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thundering, shaking the concrete."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.80,0:02:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far, all the examples we've seen\Nhave had line breaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.30,0:02:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can even imagine the two words\Nof Ali's poem organizing in the air -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.04,0:02:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me, We.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.26,0:02:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry has a shape \Nthat we can usually recognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.30,0:02:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its line breaks help readers navigate\Nthe rhythms of a poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.21,0:02:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if those line breaks disappeared?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.63,0:03:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would it lose its essence as a poem?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.12,0:03:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe not.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.43,0:03:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enter the prose poem.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.24,0:03:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prose poems use vivid images\Nand wordplay
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.99,0:03:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but are formatted like paragraphs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.27,0:03:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we look at poetry less as a form\Nand more as a concept,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.34,0:03:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can see the poetic all around us:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.15,0:03:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spiritual hymns,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.38,0:03:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the speeches of orators like\NMartin Luther King, Jr.,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.25,0:03:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JFK,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.18,0:03:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Winston Churchill,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.59,0:03:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and surprising places like social media.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.43,0:03:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2010, journalist Joanna Smith tweeted\Nupdates from the earthquake in Haiti.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.14,0:03:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Was in b-room getting dressed\Nwhen heard my name.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.09,0:03:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tremor. Ran outside through sliding door.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.81,0:03:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All still now. Safe. Roosters crowing."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.53,0:03:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smith uses language in a way\Nthat is powerful, direct,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.06,0:03:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and filled with vivid images.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.27,0:03:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Compare her language to a haiku,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.72,0:03:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ancient Japanese poetic form \Nthat emphasizes bursts of brief intensity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.82,0:04:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with just three lines of five, \Nseven, and five syllables.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.68,0:04:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The waters of poetry run wide and deep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.63,0:04:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poetry has evolved over time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.50,0:04:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps now more than ever,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.19,0:04:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the line between poetry, \Nprose, song, and visual art has blurred.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.85,0:04:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, one thing has not changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.23,0:04:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word poetry actually began\Nin verb form,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.66,0:04:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming from the ancient Greek poiesis,\Nwhich means to create.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.60,0:04:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poets, like craftsman, still work with\Nthe raw materials of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.14,0:04:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to forge new understandings
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.99,0:04:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and comment on what it is to be human\Nin a way only humans can.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.08,0:04:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dartmouth researchers tested this idea\Nby asking robots to pen poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.52,0:04:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A panel of judges sorted \Nthrough stacks of sonnets
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.02,0:04:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see if they could distinguish those\Nmade by man and machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.05,0:04:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may be happy to know that while\Nscientists have successfully
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.01,0:04:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,used artificial intelligence \Nin manufacturing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.04,0:04:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.04,0:04:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even journalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.58,0:05:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poetry is a different story.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.26,0:05:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The robots were caught red-handed\N100% of the time.