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.

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“consciousness” 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 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 1 / 163 1800s 18 / 684 1850s 20 / 939 1900s 23 / 1117 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 18 with this theme Show all eras

A Dream

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A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

Alone

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Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

Ariadne Waking

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Ariadne Waking

by Leigh Hunt · English

19 October 1784 - 28 August 1859 (~75)

For thee alone

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For thee alone

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Imitation

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Imitation

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

O gentle Sleep!

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O gentle Sleep!

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Ode to Psyche

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Ode to Psyche

by John Keats · English

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

On the Righi

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On the Righi

by J.G. Holland · English

24 July 1819 - 12 October 1881 (~62)

Self-Interrogation

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Self-Interrogation

by Emily Brontë · English

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

Silence

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Silence

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Sleep

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Sleep

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Day's Ration

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The Day's Ration

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

The First Birth Day

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The First Birth Day

by Hartley Coleridge · English

19 September 1796 - 6 January 1849 (~53)

The Sphinx

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The Sphinx

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

There Was an Old Man in a Tree

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There Was an Old Man in a Tree

by Edward Lear · English

12 May 1812 - 29 January 1888 (~76)

To Sleep

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To Sleep

by John Keats · English

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Two Rivers

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Two Rivers

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

What is Life?

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What is Life?

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

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