Reflections on Little Red Cap Manuscripts
This was the first time I would be looking at original manuscripts for pretty much any published work. I was half expecting some Hollywood style scriblings of a genius or something….epic. What I found...
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The manuscripts on the poem Oslo were very limited unlike the manuscripts available for Little Red Cap. The draft I saw for Oslo was as a composed complete poem. There were only a few revisions in the...
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Where’s Icarus?
She tries to take it all in. The sea. The ships unfurling their sails. Peaces is upset. She sees him. Covered in a feathery vestige, performing what looks like a preflight checklist takeoff. What a...
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Unique word count for each book
Here’s a count of all the unique words in each book. It will work for getting an idea of how times different words are used, but it hasn’t been cleaned up and looks a little messy. go to this link...
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Count World Wife NOTE: there may be a problem with the code I used. I’m not sure if the things listed properly. The lists may be off by 1 line there are 1644 2 -letter words there are 2144 3 -letter...
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Word Trends in Duffy
In looking at Word Trends, we examined how frequently words appeared between the two volumes. We focused on the relationship between love and sex. These two terms, which are so often paired together...
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Voyant Links Analysis
Candace, Chelsea, Danny, Joe, Martin Voyant Links Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy Poems Upon our initial investigation, we wanted to look at the connection between the physical body parts and greater...
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Excel as a tool to analyze poetry
While the two works of Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife and Mean Time, appear to be different from a qualitative perspective, there also appears to be a difference in examining the texts...
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DH Final – Cirrus and Duffy
Mean Time The World’s Wife In our group’s evaluation of Duffy’s two volumes using Voyant, we found that applying Cirrus to the two collections yielded some interesting results, especially in...
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