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Presented here is an ongoing exploration of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ and Ruth Padel’s ‘Darwin, A Life In Poems’.
I initially separated the text of these two books into nouns verbs, adjectives & other. I wanted to present a visual map of how a scientist and a poet use language – a look at how much each author used real world names (Nouns) and more abstract terminology (Verb, Adjective and Other) in their writings.
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Once I had a count of the 153535 words used in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, I set about drawing a dot for every word
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4H pencil was used to represent the 50567 words which were categorized as ‘Other
2H pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Noun’
HB pencil was used to represent the 26 435 words which were categorized as ‘Verb’
4B pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Adjective’ -
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I found the nouns specifically interesting and created ‘frequency poems’ based on Darwin’s and Padel’s books. These are the most frequently occurring nouns in the texts and I feel create a unique portrait of both types of literature.
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