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Creative Writing
& Deep Learning Imagery Portfolio
Oct.2018 Edition <Harvard Supplement>
Yu-Teng, Li
* All imagery (artworks) of literary pieces included are generated with my
own computer science Deep Learning prototype program: Poetic Dream
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Foreword
Poetry resembles the future of technology
— what we imagined, we’ll eventually make.
Well, at least part of the future of technology. Imagination is always the most invigorating
part of poetry to me, not to mention poetry’s ineffable imagery and algorithmic expression
that generate infinite stories in readers’ minds. Every time a poem is read, a new life is
born.
This portfolio records my growth from a young sentimental writer, to a dreamer seeking
to merge computer science and arts, to a maker who has learned to acquire necessary
knowledge and skillsets to produce a prototype to realize such a dream. Throughout my
creative writing collection, I complemented computer-generated imagery portraits to
many of my written pieces. These computer-generated portraits were composed by my
maker program Poetic Dream, primarily consisting of poetic analysis from Recurrent
Neural Network and Neural Style Transfer, merging the imagery in each piece with a
correspondent art style.
Chapter 1. “Faraway Time” contains 3 proses and 4 poems mainly about reflection on life
and disorientation from dream pursuit, ending with the poem “Practice Living,” the
turning point where I realized how to be a warm person besides an ambitious “imagineer.”
Chapter 2 “Moonlight Puzzle” depicts the emotions revealed only at night: monologues
about love, farewell poems and travel reflections, montages of the intrinsic sensibilities
behind my ostensible aspiring self in daytime.
Since composing the first poem at the age of eight, I grew from leading two separate
lifestyles of achieving in science and of finding catharsis in poetry, to discovering the
intersection of these two seemingly disparate lifestyles. History has taught me that arts
engender new perspectives in science, and science facilitated the advance of the
humanities in arts. Visualizing the intangible “imagery” generated through computer
Deep Learning is a threshold that further encourages my dream to propel humanities
forward through technology. I’ve been writing for the past decade, and I certainly will for
the next--
I will write with my ink of action, and I will write beside my dent in the universe.
Yu-Teng Li
2018.10.28 at Taichung, Taiwan
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Table of Contents
前言 Foreword .................................................. 2
卷一、時序在遠方 Chapter 1. Faraway Time
時序在遠方 ..................................................... 7
Faraway Time
晚風中的智慧 — 致心靈導師蘇格拉底<金石堂文學獎作品> ........... 9
Wisdom is in the Wind — A letter for Socrates in “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”
<Kingstone Literary Award-winning piece>
帶著文字旅行 ...................................................10
The Wandering Poet
轉角。致大露營那一夜 <全球華文學生文學獎作品> ..................13
The Corner Trilogy <Global Youth Literary Award-winning piece>
漂流瓶 <明道文學獎作品> ........................................14
Message Bottle <Mingdao Literary Award-winning piece>
生日二部曲。十五歲 .............................................16
Life thrives like a Forest
生活練習 .......................................................17
Practice living
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卷二、夜光拼圖 Chapter 2. Moonlight Puzzle
童話生活 ........................................................ 20
The True Fairy Tale
深海回音 <明道文學獎作品> ...................................... 21
Echo of the sea <Mingdao Literary Award-winning piece>
青春未盡 2016 .................................................. 22
Reminisce 2016
舊城戰事—遊布魯日有感 ......................................... 24
Flandrensis Battlefield — 2016 at Bruges, Belgium
下雨的人 ....................................................... 25
Sunshine in the Rain
旅途上 — 記余光中散文獎 ....................................... 26
The Passersby <Yu Kwang-Chung Literary Program-winning piece>
熱帶島上的雪 — 致 N. .......................................... 28
Tropic Snow – to N.
描聲者<維港印象>................................................ 29
Artist of Sounds <by Victoria Harbor>