The creation and use of metaphors is an indispensable element of our mental skills and our ability to use language. Modern studies of metaphor underline its almost unlimited range. Perceived this way, a metaphor is not only a rhetorical figure occurring in poetical language and in several different specific types of discourse. The ability to create and use metaphors is used in everyday and scie...

ERASMUS DARWIN, The botanic garden, Erasmus Darwin, 1791, London, Scolar Press, 1973, 4to, pp. viii, xii, 214, 128, v-vii, 184, illus., £10.00. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles, was an outstanding Midlands physician, and, in addition, a prominent scientist, inventor, and founder of the Birmingham Lunar Society. However, he also enjoyed great fame as a poet and this book presen...

This short essay considers the untraced variants of seven Stewart and Meikle chapbooks printed in 1799 gathered as The Poetical Miscellany (1800). Stemming from new bibliographical research into early editions Robert Burns, commenced 2015, it is shown that at least five these were with several different settings. throws doubt on integrity a complete edition. which argument based was carried out...

The paper aims to reveal the potential of musical art for developing secondary school pupils’ interest in domestic history. article examines realization young peoples’ patriotic education by means at music lessons. Scientific originality study lies fact that Russian composers’ works are analysed taking into account their role teenagers’ research findings as follows: author compiles a list music...

â  â  ibn al-amid’s poetry â â â â â  s.f. mirghaderi * â  hossein kiani** â  â  abstract â  ibn al-amid is one of the most distinguished writers of the arabic literature who is believed, even by his contemporary critics, to be at the top of his profession due to the unique characteristics of his writings. besides being a writer, ibn al-amid also had a taste in composing poems. his poems are ...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

Constraints are a major factor shaping the conceptual space of many areas of creativity. We propose to use constraint programming techniques and off-the-shelf constraint solvers in the creative task of poetry writing. We show how many aspects essential in different poetical forms, and partially even in the level of language syntax and semantics can be represented as interacting constraints. The...