BLAST, World War I, and Tonal Shifts

The word war increases in use by a massive amount between the two issues, going from very infrequent in the first issue to the most common word in the second. The frequency of the other top words stayed fairly consistent between the two issues, suggesting that the second issue likely talked about art and war in the same context a lot of the time. If you look at raw frequencies instead of relative, war is used over thirteen times as much in the second issue as it in the first, while all of the other words are used less often in the second, usually around two thirds of the amount that they are used in the first. This is because the second issue of ''BLAST'' significantly shorter than the first.

The raw frequency of the word war increases by 1340% from the first to second issue of ''BLAST''. Also, in the second issue the most the word war was used most commonly in the beginning, and very infrequently in the middle of the magazine. This may be because the authors knew that the average reader would be worried about the war, so they wanted to draw people in with articles mentioning the war before getting into more artsy, Vorticism focused material in the middle. For the most part, every time the circle size changes dramatically, it represents a new article that was more or less concerned with that one word in particular, and thus used the word a very different amount.