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The center of Lindemann's Writing? Co-occurences ...

2879 words (tokens) are not very much, unique tokens: 1570, when stemmed: 1317. All the same, finding patterns across the 97 poems in Till Lindemann's "Quiet Nights" seems to be difficult. Looking for n-gams and skipgrams: found nothing that went beyond the limits of single poems. Asking with R Quanteda for co-occurences, with n=50 we get a cloud:

What we see? A predominance of words for human and animal bodies or parts of them: "hund", "mund", "haar", "schweiß", "blut", "fleisch", "herz" .... Inquiring on these elements could be an interesting project. As a net of words, though, the entire image is only confusing. Lowering n to 20, the picture gets clearer, but the connecting lines are really weak. "Dass" should be eliminated, right. 

Going down to n=7. The animals have vanished, "heart" and "face" are the only remaning parts of the body.
At the end, after stemming and lowering n to 3,. we might feel like approaching the very center of Lindemann's writing: 


 The numbers are low, but the image is clear and nice. Is it not? Does not look very distant from the band ...

 


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