In this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner’s nested design model to maintain high-level interacti...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

irony makes the word meaning multifaceted and contradictory meanings being extended in text. explaining the theoretical framework of irony, it has been tried in present research to make the ironic components clear, to extract the common features between irony and other semantic industries of persian language, and to analyze the tricks and efficient forms of irony in hafiz's poetry. the res...

K e y w o r d s : Modern Female Literature, Female Writers, Writing Style, Aesthetic Scope 1 0 9 Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2003, pp. 109-122. © 2003 by the Sungkyunkwan University, The Academy of East Asian Studies * Professor at the Institute of Literature of Shandong University and graduated in 1959 from the Department of Chinese Language from the same University....

This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

This paper presents work-in-progress of the POSTDATA project. This project aims to provide means to solve the interoperability issues that exist among the digital poetry repertoires. These repertoires hold data of poetry metrics that is locked in their own databases and it is not freely available to be compared and to be used by intelligent machines that could infer over the data. The POSTDATA ...