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# Visualizing the work of E. E. Cummings
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/visualizing-the-work-of-e-e-cummings/
- Published: 2009-01-31T19:37:51.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-24T15:17:26.000Z
- Description: Brother and sister, Chris and Alex Riccomini, have built a visualization exploring the progression and cadence of American poet…
- Author: Protein
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![Visualizing the work of E. E. Cummings](http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/images/641_big01.jpg)

Brother and sister, Chris and Alex Riccomini, have built a visualization exploring the progression and cadence of American poet E. E. Cummings' 1944 collection, "I X I,". Starting at the 12 o'clock position, each bar at the edge of the circle represents a poem. Poems progress in a clock-wise direction. Each ray represents a line in the poem. The coloring of the bar represents the theme of that poem. The thickness of the bars represents the word count for that poem.As Alex Riccomini explains: "the most obvious piece of information to extract from this visualization is that as the sections progress, the poems within them are at first fairly varied (with a focus on societal, economic, and political commentary; then, the second section begins to translate to these concepts interspersed with love/sex; and, the final section is devoted almost entirely to love/sex.) The overt change in focus happens to be at the exact numerical center of the collection. For a poet whose attention to the positioning, length, structure, and numerical/lyrical structure of his work is nothing if not acute and meticulous, it is hardly unrealistic to infer that this was a purposeful move on his part".

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