Poets and critics alike can use the "Pataphysical Software Company's Obfuscator 1.0 to make any poem more complicated without losing any of the original words of the poem.
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Since criticism, for the most part, only surrounds poems with excess verbiage--making poetry more obtuse than clear--why not perform the same function with the very words of the actual poem! There's no need to depart from the poem to establish an interpretive framework when the poem itself offers us endless opportunities to alienate readers with more complicated language. With Obfuscator 1.0, you can unleash the poem's hidden power to interpret itself!
Is your poetry too simplistic? Do you wish you had a larger, more extensive vocabulary? If you're bored with your old habitual tropes and your standard personal lexicon, The "Pataphysical Software Company's Obfuscator 1.0 can help you break free into new realms of poetic complexity.
Rather than throwing out those old unsuccessful poems, the Obfuscator can bring them back to life as new, dynamic, intricate poems that seem infinitely more complex. The Obfuscator produces consistent increases in difficulty on all major readability tests, and this power can be yours courtesy of The "Pataphysical Software Company.
The Obfuscator creates a new poem from your old poem by a simple yet elegant process: it takes each word, and finds longer words that contain the original word in their constituent letters, giving you the option of which to choose. For instance, if you obfuscate the word cat, the Obfuscator gives you the option of choosing from chat, cardinality, exacerbating, incarnation, socialist, vilification, and witchcraft. The Obfuscator takes just three easy steps:
Without losing the words of the original poem, The Obfuscator creates--as if by magic--a new more complex poem through the power of obfuscation.
This fragment of a children's song has been obfuscated with The "PSC Obfuscator
the cat came back the very next day the cat came back he thought he was a goner but the cat came back he just wouldnt stay away
brothel carting scampers blackouts interchanged diversifying contextually budgetary astonishment consolidating charmed blackberries brandishes thoughts frighten wails damask trigonometry beauty breathes captive's chairmen black archaicness jousted wouldnt standby stalwartly
brothelcartingscampersblackoutsinterchangeddiversifyingcontextuallybudgetaryastonishmentconsolidatingcharmedblackberriesbrandishesthoughtsfrightenwailsdamasktrigonometrybeautybreathescaptive'schairmenblackarchaicnessjoustedwouldnt standbystalwartly
The chilldren's song has been obfuscated beyond recognition, showing the power of the "PSC Obfuscator to make even the most simple children's poem unweildy, plodding, and needlessly complex.