The first thing I noticed and I think everyone noticed when first reading through these types of poems was how a new stanza, or line in the poem would appear every couple seconds and that each combination would seem random as if it was generated by some sort of algorithm within the computer. This allows for a seemingly endless amount of possible combinations for the poems. However, this did in turn create a lot of stanzas or lines that just seemed to not make much sense. However, I think that the stanzas or lines that seemed to not make much sense to me, might actually have a meaning to a different reader and vice versa.
The Love Letters would produce a new stanza every few seconds, while Scholastic Texts would produce a new line every few seconds. Personally, I sometimes felt as I did not have enough time to read each line or stanza in order to fully comprehend it. However, with A House of Dust, it would produce a new line every couple seconds and slowly build each stanza to give off the feeling that the reader is actually keeping up and reading along with the computer. I much preferred the experience given by A House of Dust.
It was interesting to me the amount of influence Dadaist poems had on combinatory poems, especially since the instructions on how to make a Dadaist poems with a newspaper is how the algorithm for combinatory poems works. Tzara even said within the instructions, “You will now become ‘an infinitely original writer with a charming sensitivity, although still misunderstood by the common people'”. This line is interesting to me because these were the thoughts I first had when reading through the poems. I noticed how combinatory poems are seemingly endless with original content and that they produce many poems that seem very confusing and dumb to me but might actually have meaning to other readers.