I think that this was a tricky assignment. I don’t think that changing the words in the poem using this engine does anything to show us new meaning about the poem or the words. I think it’s all just random and rarely does it turn out to make sense. What I did really like about the experience was learning how to program which I feel like is deformance in itself because you’re getting to the core of something. I was most interested in the word “forgive” and if it would be changed to anything that would change the meaning slightly but it didn’t. I think that “plums” brought up some fun changes because the word “goats” would come up and it would be funny because goats were kept in the freezer. I don’t think it would help me in my examination of any other poem but it would be fun to pop a Shakespeare sonnet into the program and see what it makes. I do think it’s more helpful when you’re not changing as many words in the poem rather than having every other one changed because then you completely lose the meaning. It’s helpful in getting to the core of the poem and analyzing single words and seeing how they fit into the poem as a whole, while also showing the importance of a particular word. I think that deformance is only effective when used with poetry because they’re more succinct than books or plays. It would be cool to use this program with “The Raven” and change a few repeating words and see what it would make the raven say.