[Corpora-List] Poetry

[Nancy Ide]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Ken Litkowski wrote:
> I believe also that Nancy Ide performed a spectral analysis of  
> Blake's "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright".
>

This was actually a study of Blake's long poem "The Four Zoas", and  
it was not a stylistic analysis but rather a study of distribution of  
different images across the text, with the goal in part to discover  
an overall structure of the poem. This was possible because Blake  
explicitly associates various images with one of four compass points,  
each representing a different major aspect of existence, and also  
because there are some books defining the (more or less) universally  
accepted semantic properties of images. These sources were relied  
upon to avoid, to the extent possible, a purely subjective  
interpretation of Blake's images and symbols.

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Nancy Ide

Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520
USA

tel: (+1 845) 437 5988
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email: ide at cs.vassar.edu
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide
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