Voyant is an interesting website that enables scholars to analyze themes of novels. It is a caring software that helps people to save a significant amount of time in understanding the main ideas of digital texts. I remember that we used to have to read and annotate to comprehend books. Voyant helps highlight the most important concepts for readers in books. I tested Shakespeare’s novels on Voyant to experience several features. The most frequent word is shall which appears over two thousand times. I also selected few words to see whether they have correlation in Shakespeare’s novels. The words lord, death and world all have a high correlation in Hamlet which enables scholars to compare the themes of Shakespeare’s novels all at once.
The feature that I found most interesting on Voyant is the word cloud. I think it helps a lot to know many of key words in novels that I am interested to read.
I liked how you pointed out that Voyant can highlight “the most important concepts” in a text. It can definitely point out recurring themes in a work, which can help when we further analyze stories.
Yeah I remember we used to have to annotate to prepare for essays. Voyant is convenient and useful tool that saves a lot of our time!
I like how you talked about the “word cloud” in Voyant, because it actually does help identify key words in the text. Good job!!
The word cloud feature is amazing because it gives me a concise information about what I need to know about literature or novels.