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Theme Timeline
Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.
Choose a theme
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world
life
love
death
beauty
nature
self
social
beloved
divine
memory
desire
spiritual
heart
grief
power
romantic
suffering
woman
light
soul
dead
loss
body
pain
wind
philosophical
voice
music
landscape
hope
religious
sorrow
spring
flowers
children
faith
bird
water
rose
mortality
silence
lover
domestic
presence
childhood
sound
earth
past
consciousness
truth
women
dream
flower
irish
garden
mind
rain
summer
lovers
“lover” across the centuries
Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).
pre-1500
1 / 29
BCE
0 / 12
1500s
1 / 10
1550s
6 / 89
1600s
14 / 176
1650s
4 / 57
1700s
1 / 34
1750s
2 / 163
1800s
8 / 684
1850s
15 / 939
1900s
14 / 1119
1950s
0 / 15
Poems in 1600s · 14 with this theme Show all eras
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