John Rauch
DH 101 Blog
I chose to read ‘Krapp Hour’ by Anne Carson from the ‘American Wild’ issue of Granta (http://granta.com/krapp-hour/). This is a poem, but written in the form of a screenplay. The poem itself is not very long, and thus, does not have many characters or events in it. All I was really able to do was gather information about when these characters spoke to one another. This is what my table looked life for this poem:
I then made my network graph according to this parameter:
And this was the visual result:
If you ask me, this network graph is rather disappointing. There appears to be no real relationship between characters, other than they all talk with KRAPP, who is the host. This is not surprising information that could only be known from the graph. This network graph is limited by its lack of information. I realize now that a poem, which is quite abstract, is difficult to create a network map for because there is no clear story plot. This screenplay is sort of random and confusing to me, to be honest. However, I am not well versed in poetry so perhaps I am unable to see its significance due to my lack of knowledge. Anyways, what I took away from this project is that not all things create a useful network map. Or in other words, just because you can make a network graph of something, doesn’t mean you should do it. Not all graphs are meaningful.