Songs TO Poems
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From Spoon River Anthology to De andré

What do Masters' masterpiece and Non al denaro non all'amore nè al cielo have in common? Is it possible to compare a collection of poems and a concept album? Here is a topic interpretation project through the BERTopic topic modeling technique and the KeyBERT keyword extraction technique.







The project

The sources

Spoon River Anthology was first published in 1914 under the pseudonym Webster Ford. In its final version, the Master's major work consists of 244 poems narrating the epitaphs of the residents of the fictional town Spoon River.

Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo was released in 1971. It is a concept album made up of 9 songs, whose content and topics were mainly inspired by Master's Anthology and its Italian translation by Fernanda Pirovano.

The team

Martina Pensalfini
DHDK student - University of Bologna
Marta Soricetti
DHDK student - University of Bologna
Loredana Salvatore
DHDK student - University of Bologna
Sebastiano Giacomini
DHDK student - University of Bologna