OVERVIEW
This project analyzes linguistic ellipsis (elision) present in 90 poems written by Emily Dickinson. More specifically, we sought to analyze the correlation between elision and other factors, such as imagery, themes, recipients, and the time period in which the poems were written.
Our main research questions:
- What types of ellipsis and imagery are most commonplace in Dickinson's poems?
- How does ellipsis correlate with other factors associated with her poems, such as date written, recipients, and imagery?
Through our markup and analysis of these poems using XML-based technologies, we were able to generate some answers to these questions and even some new ideas. Explore our website to find out more!
ABOUT THE DEVELOPERS
We developed this project in Spring 2021 for the Computational Methods in the Digital Humanities course at the University of Pittsburgh. The project contributors consist of Caroline Gish, Wyatt Nicholas, and Rachel Wonder.
- Caroline Gish is a senior majoring in Linguisitics and English Literature and minoring in Korean. She took this course to satisfy the methods course requirement for the Linguistics major.
- Wyatt Nicholas is a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and minoring in English Literature. He took this course to satisfy an English requirement and also to be able to gain some beginner coding knowledge.
- Rachel Jiejun Wonder is a junior majoring in Public and Professional Writing and minoring in English Literature and Chinese. She took this course to satisfy English and quantitative reasoning requirements, as well as expand her previous knowledge of the digital humanities field.
Special thanks to our mentor Charlie Taylor and our professor David Birnbaum for their guidance throughout the course of our project.