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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“body” 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 2 / 29 BCE 2 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 8 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 4 / 163 1800s 13 / 684 1850s 13 / 939 1900s 68 / 1119 1950s 2 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 13 with this theme Show all eras

A Country Burial

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A Country Burial

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

A Fisher-Wife

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A Fisher-Wife

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Caged Skylark

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Caged Skylark

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

Epitaph

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Epitaph

by Amy Levy · English

10 November 1861 - 10 September 1889 (~28)

Harry Ploughman

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Harry Ploughman

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

I Look into My Glass

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I Look into My Glass

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Operation

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Operation

by William Ernest Henley · English

23 August 1849 - 11 July 1903 (~54)

The Ballad of Judas Iscariot

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The Ballad of Judas Iscariot

by Robert Williams Buchanan · English

18 August 1841 - 10 June 1901 (~60)

The Body grows outside

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The Body grows outside

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Dying Warrior

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The Dying Warrior

by Achsa White Sprague · English

17 November 1827 - 6 July 1862 (~35)

The First Kiss

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The First Kiss

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

The Last Word

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The Last Word

by Matthew Arnold · English

24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 (~66)

The Wheel of the Breast

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The Wheel of the Breast

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox · English

5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 (~69)

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