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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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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 6 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 26 / 937 1900s 27 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 27 with this theme Show all eras

A Sleep Song

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A Sleep Song

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Afternoon on a Hill

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Afternoon on a Hill

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

And death shall have no dominion

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And death shall have no dominion

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Castara's Flitting

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Castara's Flitting

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Child of the Romans

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Child of the Romans

by Carl Sandburg · English

6 January 1878 - 22 July 1967 (~89)

Columbines

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Columbines

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Ganymede

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Ganymede

by Witter Bynner · English

10 August 1881 - 1 June 1968 (~87)

Graves

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Graves

by Carl Sandburg · English

6 January 1878 - 22 July 1967 (~89)

Green

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Green

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Here lie the beasts

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Here lie the beasts

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

If Flowers Had Ghosts

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If Flowers Had Ghosts

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

Is there anything new under the sun

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Is there anything new under the sun

by Yone Noguchi · English

8 December 1875 - 13 July 1947 (~72)

La Fileuse

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La Fileuse

by Paul Valéry · French

30 October 1871 - 20 July 1945 (~74)

Life is Jolly

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Life is Jolly

by W. H. Davies · English

3 July 1871 - 26 September 1940 (~69)

Moment Fugue

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Moment Fugue

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Pierrot's Posies

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Pierrot's Posies

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Spring

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Spring

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Spring Song

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Spring Song

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Strings in the earth and air

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Strings in the earth and air

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

The Faun to his Shadow

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The Faun to his Shadow

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

The Gardener

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The Gardener

by Francis Ledwidge · English

19 August 1887 - 31 July 1917 (~30)

The Sea Witch

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The Sea Witch

by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall · English

14 September 1883 - 22 April 1922 (~39)

The Secret

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The Secret

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

The Send-Off

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The Send-Off

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

Thy fingers make early flowers of all things

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Thy fingers make early flowers of all things

by E. E. Cummings · English

14 October 1894 - 3 September 1962 (~68)

Virginia Stocks

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Virginia Stocks

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Wild Asters

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Wild Asters

by Sara Teasdale · English

8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 (~49)

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