Wordle

My good friend Jill (whose well-written blog is here) told me about a creative and free tool on the net: Wordle.

You can create word clouds by typing in related words, and retyping the words that you want to be the largest.  Or, as I experimented with, you can have the program scan a blog or webpage to create a word cloud.  I guess I write a lot about racism, huh!


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I like the idea that this tool could create poetry or word artwork.  I'm going to play around with it for sure!

Here's how I see God:

 

Here's someone else's Wordle of the first chapter of "The Scarlet Letter."  
I love how "virgin" is by itself and "human" and "prison" meet up. 
And also that "beetle-browed" is one of the main words!