Word clouds in action

Goals

• Examine a poem as a corpus, like a body of linguistic data.
• Linguistically analyse the words used in a poem.
• Create a word list based on a poem.
• Present linguistic findings visually using Wordle.

Lesson Plan

Wordle is a simple corpus tool which allows you to paste in text and create a ‘word cloud’ that displays the frequency of words by their relative size in a cloud.

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