Visualizing poetry with Synesketch
Synesketch is a surprising innovation in visualization technologies. It takes text and measures its emotion words to produce a visualization. This link demonstrates it with an everyday conversation, and then with William Blake's Auguries of Innocence.
Below are the 6 basic emotion patterns. From left to right and top to bottom: happiness, anger, fear, surprise, sadness, and disgust
Now here is a progressive visualization of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:
Visualizing poetry (Auguries of Innocence by William Blake)
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not through the eye
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night,
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
Below are the 6 basic emotion patterns. From left to right and top to bottom: happiness, anger, fear, surprise, sadness, and disgust
Now here is a progressive visualization of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:
Visualizing poetry (Auguries of Innocence by William Blake)
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not through the eye
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night,
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.