In the rambling sequence of thoughts in Ecl. 10.31-69 that expresses the troubled state of the lovesick Gallus, Vergil depicts his friend as proposing to abandon elegy for bucolic poetry, and to take up a pair of activities presumably related to this change. These activities--carving love-messages on trees and hunting--are to some extent typical of the unrequited literary, especially pastoral, ...

We test the Consensual Assessment Technique on recent digital poetry, using graduate students in Experimental Digital Media as judges. Our judges display good interrater agreement for the best and worst poems, but disagree on others. The CAT by itself may not be suitable for use on digital poetry; however, the behavior of quasi-expert judges when attempting this task gives us clues towards evid...

Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

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Resum: El present article té per objectiu explorar la poesia dels anys seixanta de Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas en contrast amb Vicent Andrés Estellés des l’òptica d’estudi «poètica resistència» proposada pels autors Cornelia Gräbner i David Wood (2010). D’una banda, analitzarem l’obra dos poetes tant que formen part resistència cultural durant els dictadura formar d’una literatura minoritzada. I...

This article proposes an interpretation of Bobby Sands faints on the wall, poetry book by Carmen Berenguer, whose rebel writing interrupts alienated time Thatcherism and Pinochetism. Those authoritarian, conservative governments that demonised working class are confronted poetry, transforming words bodies into a poem death (perhaps) possibility allows to think about present revaluate our past. ...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...