{"id":410,"date":"2017-11-02T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh17fall.amandadvite.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:27:21","slug":"distant-reading-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/distant-reading-duffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Reading Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please refer to this Google Doc for pictures:\u00a0https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-3MzhbvGPuNPL0cd3yeq_ANqv29E0QtA_sSWYPeByso\/edit?ts=59f8f4cc#<\/h3>\n

We took a look at color (or \u2018colour\u2019) in word trends using the terms and context tools. \u00a0An issue that was apparent straight off the bat is that with poetry it\u2019s always a good rule of thumb to keep a thesaurus handy. \u00a0There are many creative and descriptive words that can be used to give flair or describe a specific shade of color more accurately. \u00a0But for the sake of time and not trying to kill the server we limited our search to basic colors on the wheel and the word \u201ccrimson.\u201d The word count for each while although significant low in comparison to the entire collections do show some interesting trends. \u00a0The first three most used colors were in the exact same order for each book; black, blue, and red, with black being significantly higher than the other two which were almost used equally. \u00a0The rest of the color words (pink, purple, white, green, orange, yellow, brown, and crimson) weren\u2019t used very much at all. \u00a0The World\u2019s Wife also tended to use color terms more than Standing Female Nude. \u00a0Also also Duffy\u2019s use of these color terms weren\u2019t very cliche and standard. \u00a0There was a lot of variety. \u00a0All in all, while this search is flawed it would appear that Duffy doesn\u2019t use word trends like colors too often in her poetry.<\/span><\/h3>\n

An interesting trend in <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i> is that the most common words are body parts. In the top 5 most common words, three of them are body parts – eyes, face, and hands. When counting the number of times body parts words appear in the 50 most common words, there are 138 instances of body part words (eyes, face, hands, hand, head, ear, tongue, mouth). We got these numbers from the Cirrus cloud tool as well as the Terms tool. When looking at these words in the Word Trends tool, they all show up a lot together. There is one instance of hand* showing up a lot more than all the other words, but many body part words show up mostly at the same time. And when there aren\u2019t certain body part words showing up, others don\u2019t show up either. It is an interesting contrast to how many times the word \u201clove\u201d shows up – only 13 times (which is much less than in <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/h3>\n

Further looking into the difference in the use of body parts and how it changes between <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife. <\/span><\/i>The words hand, eye, breast, face and ear are collectively used 62 times in <\/span>Standing Female Nude <\/span><\/i>and 124 times in <\/span>The Worlds Wife<\/span><\/i>, almost twice as much.<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> As Duffy explores the concept of portraying the world, specifically scenes traditionally seen in a masculine context, from a woman\u2019s perspective, she ironically seems to focus more on the world from a physical perspective, and draws the reader to reflect not on just the emotional differences between masculine and feminine characters but the physical difference as well.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\nWe screwed around in Voyant focusing on gender and pronouns. In the first graph we were only looking at <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i>. It was interesting to look at \u201cshe\u201d and \u201cher\u201d together, as they follow each other pretty closely except for one at point 8. Collectively, we wish Voyant could sort things by poems instead of by arbitrary section because we really wanted to know which poem or area it was that broke that trend. Just looking at this graph, it feels to us as if male-centric words have come a bit behind female-centric ones, however there are many times where \u201che\u201d comes as the top frequency of all the words we tested, especially towards the end. We\u2019re not really sure what to make of the trends because we didn\u2019t notice this big of a switch in the gender-oriented words of the book while we were reading.<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the second graph, we were comparing pronouns between the books. While \u201cI\u201d was the most common pronoun by far in either book (which tells us a lot about Duffy\u2019s poetic style by itself), \u201cyou\u201d plummeted from <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i>, with \u201che\u201d and \u201cme\u201d rising in popularity to second and third place. \u201cShe,\u201d previously in fourth place fell into last. This makes a lot of sense to me because in pretty much all of the poems in <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i>, the speaker is speaking in first person about another person, usually male. There\u2019s not a lot of female to female interaction, so the \u201cI\u201d character would not be saying \u201cshe\u201d a lot, and because she\u2019s not speaking directly to the man in most cases, the word \u201cyou\u201d is also a lot less common than in Duffy\u2019s \u201cnormal\u201d poetry.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\nThe above graph represents the usage of the words \u201clove\u201d and \u201cman\u201d in conjunction with each other through <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i> (where purple is \u201clove\u201d and orange is \u201cman\u201d). The first half of the graph (segments 1-10) represents the usage of \u201clove\u201d and \u201cman\u201d within <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i>, while the second half of the graph (segments 11-20) represents the usage of these words within <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i>\u2019s graph is erratic and shows no correlation between the two terms. The lines often stray in opposite directions, intersect, or drop to zero quickly. <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife,<\/span><\/i> however, shows an interesting parallelism between the two terms: both terms mirror each other in their usage, with \u201clove\u201d being used slightly more than \u201cman\u201d until the latter half of the novel, where both terms are used equally, for the most part.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\nWe took a look specifically at the word \u201clove\u201d and how similar its frequency was with the word \u201cman.\u201d Between the two texts these were two of the most used words so it was interesting to see how they were split up between the two texts. The word \u201clove\u201d was used significantly more than \u201cman\u201d in <\/span>Standing Female Nude<\/span><\/i> while in <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i> it was used at almost the same frequency. Even though the words are used less in <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i> they are used with relatively the same frequency which perhaps could indicate that they are more related to each other within the context of the book.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Looking at the bubblelines tool to observe the same words it can appear to be the other way around. According to what we saw with the previous graph that even though the word \u201clove\u201d appears many times that it\u2019s inclusion with the word \u201cman\u201d would not be consistent. That was an incorrect assumption though so it\u2019s good to use a second tool to evaluate things.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\nWe all started out looking at the Word Trends tool and noticed different aspects of the words that were showing up. One of the most common trends that was noticed was that \u201cman\u201d and \u201clove\u201d trended together a lot in <\/span>The World\u2019s Wife<\/span><\/i>, but not as much in S<\/span>tanding Female Nude.<\/span><\/i> Another common trend was the TWW had a lot of body part terms, which SFN did not have. Colors were also analyzed and most of them were colors associated with negative feelings, but overall there wasn\u2019t a specific trend. As a group, we may not have come to a firm conclusion in what we screwed around with, but we did learn together how to use Voyant, particularly the word trends tool, to analyze text and screw around.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please refer to this Google Doc for pictures: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-3MzhbvGPuNPL0cd3yeq_ANqv29E0QtA_sSWYPeByso\/edit?ts=59f8f4cc# We took a look at color (or ‘colour’) in word trends using the terms and context tools.  An issue that was apparent straight off the bat is that with poetry it’s always…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distant-duffy","category-student-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aQyB-6C","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}