As indicated in my final project brainstorm, I will proceed with the difference in language use by women and men analysis. Using Voyant, I will textually analyze 20-25 poems of 10-12 female poets and 10-12 male poets (all from the 20th or 21st century), and then compare the statistical results. My hypothesis is that the occurrence of object and action words will be more prevalent in male poets work while female poets will have more “social process” words, or words reflecting emotions and concepts.
My initial list of poets is as follows:
Lucille Clifton
Anne Sexton
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elizabeth Bishop
Audre Lorde
Marianne Moore
Mina Loy
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
Rita Dove
Gwendolyn Brooks
WCW
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stephens
Robert Frost
e.e. Cummings
Langston Hughes
Stanley Kunitz
Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
Robert Hayden
Robert Lowell
This sounds like an excellent project, and I very much look forward to seeing what you turn up!