Although majority of of the words were nouns, I was very interested in how changing the pronouns completely changed the meaning of the poem. The program would change the first line from “I have eaten” (1) to “She have eaten”. Besides being grammatically incorrect, it was amusing to see how it now looked like the speaker was trying to put the blame on someone else. To me it seemed like this program is very useful for modern poetry. Too many people think that modern poetry is very random with word choice, and so this program would show them that it is not random at all. Although some of the poems that the program generated made sense, it didn’t have the same effect as the original words. In this way, I think deformance is helpful in appreciating the thought and care that goes into each word chosen. Beyond that however, it seemed to be more of a amusing program than anything very meaningful. If anything, I think deformance of this kind might actually do more harm than good to the poem. In a way it makes poetry seem more juvenile, detracting from taking the poem seriously. This is an opinion I have as someone who appreciates poetry, and I can see how someone who isn’t a serious student of literature would benefit from this program. It could draw attention to words that would normally seem to be insignificant, such as the pronouns that I really noticed. I think it would be interesting to see how deformance would work with larger bodies of works, such as plays. In plays the word choice also matters, however I feel that it is more impactful in a play than in a shorter poem. It would be interesting to see if changing the words could turn a tragedy into a comedy!