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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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“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 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 1 / 161 1800s 18 / 683 1850s 20 / 937 1900s 23 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 23 with this theme Show all eras

And Oh That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be—

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And Oh That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be—

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Animula

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Animula

by T. S. Eliot · English

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965 (~77)

Ashes of Life

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Ashes of Life

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Before I knocked

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Before I knocked

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Being but men

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Being but men

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Conscious

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Conscious

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

Dream-Confused

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Dream-Confused

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Identity

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Identity

by Mark Van Doren · English

13 June 1894 - 10 December 1972 (~78)

La Figlia Che Piange

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La Figlia Che Piange

by T. S. Eliot · English

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965 (~77)

La Fileuse

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La Fileuse

by Paul Valéry · French

30 October 1871 - 20 July 1945 (~74)

Mammoths

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Mammoths

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

Plotinus

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Plotinus

by Ezra Pound · English

30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972 (~87)

Poet: 1935

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Poet: 1935

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Repulsed

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Repulsed

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Self-Pity

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Self-Pity

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Since, on a quiet night

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Since, on a quiet night

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking

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Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Assault

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The Assault

by Robert Nichols · English

6 September 1893 - 17 December 1944 (~51)

The Dark Man

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The Dark Man

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

The Shepherd

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The Shepherd

by Joseph Campbell · English

15 July 1879 - 6 June 1944 (~65)

The sun burns the morning

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The sun burns the morning

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

There is a well into whose bottomless eye

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There is a well into whose bottomless eye

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Trench Duty

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Trench Duty

by Siegfried Sassoon · English

8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967 (~81)

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