011Strings.py

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poem_title = "spring storm"
poem_author = "William Carlos Williams"

poem_title_fixed = poem_title.title()
print(poem_title)
print(poem_title_fixed)
poem_author_fixed = poem_author.upper()
print(poem_author)
print(poem_author_fixed)

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line_one = "The sky has given over"
line_one_words = line_one.split()

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authors = "Audre Lorde, William Carlos Williams, Gabriela Mistral, Jean Toomer, An Qi, Walt Whitman, Shel Silverstein, Carmen Boullosa, Kamala Suraiyya, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Nikki Giovanni"
author_names = authors.split(",")

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authors = "Audre Lorde, William Carlos Williams, Gabriela Mistral, Jean Toomer, An Qi, Walt Whitman, Shel Silverstein, Carmen Boullosa, Kamala Suraiyya, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Nikki Giovanni"
author_names = authors.split(",")
print(author_names)
author_last_names = []
for item in author_names:
  lastName = item.split()
  author_last_names.append(lastName[-1])
  
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spring_storm_text = \
"""The sky has given over 
its bitterness. 
Out of the dark change 
all day long 
rain falls and falls 
as if it would never end. 
Still the snow keeps 
its hold on the ground. 
But water, water 
from a thousand runnels! 
It collects swiftly, 
dappled with black 
cuts a way for itself 
through green ice in the gutters. 
Drop after drop it falls 
from the withered grass-stems 
of the overhanging embankment."""

spring_storm_lines = spring_storm_text.split("\n")

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reapers_line_one_words = ["Black", "reapers", "with", "the", "sound", "of", "steel", "on", "stones"]
reapers_line_one = " ".join(reapers_line_one_words)

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winter_trees_lines = ['All the complicated details', 'of the attiring and', 'the disattiring are completed!', 'A liquid moon', 'moves gently among', 'the long branches.', 'Thus having prepared their buds', 'against a sure winter', 'the wise trees', 'stand sleeping in the cold.']
winter_trees_full = "\n".join(winter_trees_lines)

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love_maybe_lines = ['Always    ', '     in the middle of our bloodiest battles  ', 'you lay down your arms', '           like flowering mines    ','\n' ,'   to conquer me home.    ']
love_maybe_lines_stripped = []
love_maybe_full = ""
for i in love_maybe_lines:
  love_maybe_lines_stripped.append(i.strip())

love_maybe_full = "\n".join(love_maybe_lines_stripped)
print(love_maybe_full)

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toomer_bio = \
"""
Nathan Pinchback Tomer, who adopted the name Jean Tomer early in his literary career, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1894. Jean is the son of Nathan Tomer was a mixed-race freedman, born into slavery in 1839 in Chatham County, North Carolina. Jean Tomer is most well known for his first book Cane, which vividly portrays the life of African-Americans in southern farmlands.
"""
toomer_bio_fixed = toomer_bio.replace("Tomer","Toomer")

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god_wills_it_line_one = "The very earth will disown you"
disown_placement = god_wills_it_line_one.find("disown")

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def poem_title_card(poet, title):
  return "The poem \"{}\" is written by {}.".format(title,poet)

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def poem_description(publishing_date, author, title, original_work):
  poem_desc = "The poem {title} by {author} was originally published in {original_work} in {publishing_date}.".format(title=title, author=author, original_work=original_work, publishing_date=publishing_date)
  return poem_desc
my_beard_description = poem_description("1974", "Shel Silverstein","My Beard","Where the Sidewalk Ends")

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