This dataset is composed of 684 Herman Hesse's poems and richly annotated metadata. PoeMetaVis allows interactive exploration of intricate associations between moods, themes, motives, and sentiments in both time and location dimension, which are otherwise invisible using traditional close reading methods.
Hover over a (1) mood word on the left, (2) a theme word in the center, (3) a motif word on the right, or a (4) color block at the end of each ribbon to see all associations.
⊕ Place the mouse on the image and click to magnify it.
Click a word or a color block to fix the highlighted associations and filter associated poems from the metadata table.
Re-click a word or a color block to fix the highlighted associations and unfilter associated poems from the metadata table.
Use the mood/motif threshold slider to show moods/motives that occur in at least N selected poems.
Use the mood/motif selector to display specific moods/motives and related associations.
Hover over a theme word to see poems associated with that theme in the tooltip.
Hover over on individual poems to see associations in the Sankey chart.
Click a poem inside the tooltip to add related moods and motifs to the Sankey diagram, and highlight that poem on the metadata table. Only one associated poem's moods/motifs can be added at a time.
Re-click a poem inside the tooltip to remove related moods/motifs from the Sankey diagram, and cancel the highlighted poem on the metadata table.
Click a black colored word to add that theme word to the Sankey diagram. A total of 10 theme words can be selected at a time.
Re-click a colored word to remove that theme word from the Sankey diagram.
Click a legend item to filter the poems by one or more sentiment categories.
Click a year in the top graph to filter poems by that year.
Click a colored block in the top graph to filter poems by the matching year and sentiment category.
Single mode: only one item can be selected at a time.
Multiple mode: multiple items can be selected.
Click the play button to start a time slider animation using "Slide" or "Accumulate" mode.
Option to switch between the stacked bar chart and grouped bar chart.
Switch between counts and percentages of the total or percentages per year.
Visualizing theme/mood/motif changes over time.
Click the selection area to select one or more theme(s)/mood(s)/motif(motives).
Brush the bottom graph to display data within a specific time range.
Hover over an item on the legend to highlight its trend line.
Switch between counts and percentages of the total or percentages per year.
Inspect the ranking of mood and motif words in all poems and for specific themes selected from the wordcloud.
Click the column names on the first row to sort the table.
Search mood/motif words that contain the search item.
Use the search function to filter the table.
Specify search columns to narrow the search down to the selected columns.
Hover over the book icon to see the full poem text.
Click the copy icon in the full poem text tooltip to copy the full poem text.
Click the download button to download filtered table data.
Click a theme word to add/remove that theme word to/from the Sankey diagram.
zusammengefasst von Julia Kammerzelt
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PoemMetaVis is a web-based interactive visualization tool for exploring annotated poetry metadata — moods, themes, motifs, sentiments — across time and location.
Literary scholars, digital-humanities researchers, students, and anyone curious about reading patterns that close reading alone cannot reveal.
No. The tool runs entirely in the browser. Just open one of the case studies and start exploring.
Two: Hermann Hesse (684 German-language poems, fully annotated) and Su Dongpo (a collection of Chinese song ci lyrics).
Yes — the visualization is language-agnostic. Get in touch if you would like to apply it to a new poetry corpus.