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I wonder if humans are so primed to find meaning in poetry that a lot of people would find something in anything.

For example, take Bob Dylan and have him write 7 random words (for example using the Diceware password generator.) Then release this 7 words saying that this is a leak of one of the lines in an unpublished song.

I bet that you will get entire articles analyzing those 7 words in great detail and coming to the conclusion that that line is one of the most profound lines ever written.



Or take "I am the Walrus" a mix of dream scenes and childhood nonsense rhymes scrambled[1] together as a riposte to taking Beatles and Dylan lyrics too seriously, and see people analysing it as using the Inuit symbol of death to say something about Paul...

[1]I wasn't consciously thinking of the egg man when I picked this word...




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