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Shannonian Criticism: Information Architecture and Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy'

> TL;DR: I wrote this essay for a class. I tried using token-level surprisal, entropy and LessWrong's own S2 as instruments for close reading, with Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" as the case study. Using a corpus of 295 poems by 31 canonical poets (canonicity proxied by quizbowl answerline frequency), I find...