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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“lover” 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 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 6 / 89 1600s 14 / 176 1650s 4 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 8 / 684 1850s 15 / 939 1900s 14 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 14 with this theme Show all eras

A Dead Girl To Her Lover

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A Dead Girl To Her Lover

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

A Marriage Charm

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A Marriage Charm

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

A Sleep Song

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A Sleep Song

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Dear heart, why will you use me so?

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Dear heart, why will you use me so?

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Dreams

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Dreams

by Sara Teasdale · English

8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 (~49)

Elusion

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Elusion

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Love Me at Last

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Love Me at Last

by Alice Corbin · English

16 April 1881 - 18 July 1949 (~68)

Medusa

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Medusa

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Michael-Angelo

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Michael-Angelo

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

O sweetheart

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O sweetheart

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

The Skin-Sack

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The Skin-Sack

by Mina Loy · English

27 December 1882 - 25 September 1966 (~84)

Thursday

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Thursday

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

When the shy star goes forth in heaven

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When the shy star goes forth in heaven

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Youth

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Youth

by Clifford Bax · English

13 July 1886 - 18 November 1962 (~76)

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