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Greatest poem

Prompt, in fullWhat is the greatest poem? Name one: title — creator. Then briefly say why.

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models named The Waste Land · each model counted once, by its most frequent named answer

Next came Ozymandias with 3, The Divine Comedy with 3 and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night with 1. Eleven different answers in all. One model (Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite) gave the same answer in every reply.

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night1
Howl1
Ode on a Grecian Urn1
Ode to a Nightingale1
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer1

3 more answers were named, each by one model.

Every model’s answer (25)
ModelAnswerReplies
Claude Haiku 4.5The Waste Land7 of 8
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpThe Waste Land1 of 2
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B The Waste Land2 of 2
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteThe Waste Land8 of 8 · every reply
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteThe Waste Land2 of 2
Llama 3 8B LunarisThe Waste Land1 of 2
Llama 4 MaverickThe Waste Land2 of 2
Mercury 2The Waste Land2 of 2
Mistral: Devstral 2 2512The Waste Land2 of 2
Small 2603The Waste Land2 of 2
UncensoredThe Waste Land2 of 2
Cydonia 24B V4.1Ozymandias1 of 2
EdgeOzymandias1 of 2
Inference.net: Schematron V2 SmallOzymandias1 of 2
GPT-5.4 NanoThe Divine Comedy1 of 2
Kimi K2The Divine Comedy1 of 1
Solar Pro 4The Divine Comedy1 of 2
Nova Lite 1.0Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night2 of 2
Nova MicroHowl1 of 2
Claude 3 HaikuOde on a Grecian Urn1 of 2
Perceptron Mk1Ode to a Nightingale2 of 2
MythoMax 13BOn First Looking into Chapman's Homer1 of 2
MiMo v2.5The Iliad1 of 2
Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)The Odyssey1 of 2
Tencent: Hy-MT2-1.8BThe Road Not Taken1 of 2

Asked 2 times

Each line is one recorded run with its own chart. The number above combines them; a wording is printed when it differs from the prompt at the top.

Wording, run 2 of 2The Waste Land · 9 of 22
Wording, run 1 of 2The Waste Land · 2 of 3

In their words

“# "The Waste Land" — T.S. Eliot It's the modernist masterpiece that redefined what poetry could be: fragmented, allusive, darkly prophetic about civilization's collapse.”

Anthropic · Claude Haiku 4.5 · The Waste Land

“*The Waste Land* — T. S. Eliot. It is the greatest poem because it brilliantly captures the fragmentation, disillusionment, and psychological exhaustion of the modern condition following World War I.”

Google · Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite · The Waste Land

““The Waste Land” — T.S. Eliot. Because it gathers myth, prophecy, personal anguish, and cultural collapse into a single fragmented voice, and in doing so it reinvented what poetry could be for the modern world.”

DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp · The Waste Land

“**"The Waste Land" — T.S. Eliot** It is widely considered the greatest poem of the 20th century because it masterfully synthesized the disillusionment of the post-World War I era.”

Google · Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite · The Waste Land
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