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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
music
voice
landscape
hope
religious
sorrow
spring
flowers
children
water
faith
bird
rose
mortality
silence
lover
domestic
presence
childhood
sound
past
earth
consciousness
truth
dream
women
flower
irish
garden
mind
eyes
rain
summer
“innocence” 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
0 / 30
BCE
0 / 12
1500s
0 / 10
1550s
0 / 91
1600s
0 / 177
1650s
0 / 60
1700s
0 / 35
1750s
16 / 164
1800s
7 / 687
1850s
6 / 948
1900s
8 / 1124
1950s
0 / 15
Poems in 1750s · 16 with this theme Show all eras
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