Week1-4

2022

I have chosen one famous poem by Rabindranath Tagore as the material to start the visualisation at the level of rationale.

selected poems

statistics

Who was Rabindranath Tagore?

Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Attempt to make digitized image poetry

paragraph division

For the background colour of this version, I chose a light yellow-grey to mimic the already yellowing paper. And I used thick solid lines to separate the four paragraphs

word count

In the left part is the paragraph signs. I also use grids to guide the next step, which shows the general length of the poem. Then I use the line as the centre of all the circles to show the areas of the main body and the density of each little section.

paragraph division

After adding a visual language of key words and punctuation marks, I connected them into a topological line.

punctuation

rhyme

After deleting the original poem, the image of this poem becomes clear. But at that time there is a problem that came up in my mind that it looks not good in visual.

So, next, I need to find a way to convey the ideas of the poem and try to keep it good visual at the same time.

The rhymes are wired together, which looks a lot like computer graphics