Syuzhet Maps

The syuzhet maps are a point at which the two coders are most divergent. Sally’s highly unusual map form is created by the fact that for her the poem moves forward in a series of steps which creates a chain of linkage but represent distinct moments in time. The figure S (“S” for syuzhet) is just a pleasing coincidence created by the graph algorithm. In James’s syuzhet map, despite all the spatial specificity of the poem, 'spaceless musings' lie at its heart. The number of connections emphasises the poem's format as a series of interconnected and intermingling memory pockets expressed though a narrator that – at the point of narration – lies outside the spaces and times being recounted.