The power of poetry is universally acknowledged, but it is debatable whether its appreciation is reserved for experts. Here, we show that readers with no particular knowledge of a traditional form of Welsh poetry unconsciously distinguish phrases conforming to its complex poetic construction rules from those that violate them. We studied the brain response of native speakers of Welsh as they re...

Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also in infant-directed speech, play, rites, and festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from nineteenth and twentieth German poetry that feature end rhyme and regular meter, the present study tested the hypothesis that meter and rhyme have an impact on aesthetic liking, emotional involvement, and affective valence attribu...

this article is supported by bourdieus theory of literary production. therefore the main question of this research is concerned with the chiasmatic structure of this filed. first of all i start with reviewing bourdieu's theory briefly to use it in further arguments. also i illustrate the polarized structure of the subfield of poetry within iranian literary associations and institutions. ma...

the myth of the descent of adam, with all its complexities, has being preoccupied the mind of human kind from the very beginning stages of creation. the holy books of torah, bible and quran have each paid to different angles of this legend. studying the modern poetry, it can be found that the contemporary poets have been under the influence of quran and have used the teachings of old and new te...

qeysar aminpour (1959-2007) is one of the outstanding figures in contemporary persian poetry. one of the prominent aspects of his poetic style is the distinct language of his poems in the three areas of lexicon, compositions and syntax. relying on these three areas, this study attempted to investigate the most important linguistic features of his poetry in order to figure out special style of t...

considered ibrahim naji from rowe ed renewal and media contemporary arabic poetry and the mode of the contract between the poets egyptian glory dean, who tat by poets of the modern era . renewal has going on in different angles, some t. new in the music and poetry in his imagination, but in the and methods . this research tries in the subject renewal music when the poet's glory d on the ro...

The letter inviting me to represent the field of poetry therapy by submitting an article for a “Special Issue on the State of the Arts” was broad enough to intrigue me and challenging enough to help me decide on a positive reply. And as I began to formulate ideas, discuss points of view with many individuals’ and gather notes, it soon became evident that I had undertaken a gigantic task that no...

Reception of Homer in Modern Greek literature. Translation. poetry. Digenis. Loukanis. Solomòs. Palamàs. Kavafis. Seferis. Elytis. Patrikios. Dimitriadis.

Poetry is a unique artifact of Human Natural Language Production whose creation requires mastery over linguistic knowledge and creativity. Thus, generating poetry by a computer is certainly a testament to the progress of Arti cial Intelligence. This report descibes the past work in this area and also presents a working algorithm which generates poetry using semantic similarity based on WordNet[1].