The Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, is a master of weaving various intellectual sources and different types religious, artistic, historical, mythical figures into his poetry. Like any exceptional piece art, poetry triggers an immediate response. It blends the aesthetic with informative to create vivid world deeply rooted in global heritage local folklore. This paper investigates translation ...

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...

based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

this article is an attempt to investigate the aesthetics of color themes in arabic poetry. as a means of psychological description, color is one of the manifestations of realism in poetic images. in the application of colors some mythical and civilized structures are portrayed in the culture of nations. since languages have their own specific organizations of colors, the author aims to measure ...

Large-scale comparisons between the poetry of Tang and Song dynasties shed light on how words and expressions were used and shared among the poets. That some words were used only in the Tang poetry and some only in the Song poetry could lead to interesting research in linguistics. That the most frequent colors are different in the Tang and Song poetry provides a trace of the changing social cir...

Poetry is one of the seven arts and critics have always attended to its aesthetic features. The greatest modern scientific achievement of literature has been the discovery of the therapeutic quality of poetry. Poetry therapy as a new treatment for patients suffering from depression began in the US where it produced positive results. In this article, the authors investigate poetry in a different...

The hierarchy of classical Chinese poetry has been broadly acknowledged by a number of studies in Chinese literature. However, quantitative investigations about the evolution of classical Chinese poetry are limited. The primary goal of this study is to provide quantitative evidence of the evolutionary linkages, with emphasis on word usage, among different period genres for classical Chinese poe...

In his article "Electronic Poetry and the Importance of Digital Repository" Manuel Brito analyzes selected early digital repositories of electronic poetry. In addition to issues concerning efficiency and discursive practice, Brito's discusses the objectives, contents, and the funding of digital repositories. Brito argues that digital repositories promote poetry, enable networking and quick publ...

Poetry is rarely a focus of linguistic investigation. This is far from surprising, as poetic language, especially in modern and contemporary literature, seems to defy the general rules of syntax and semantics. This paper assumes, however, that linguistic theories should ideally be able to account for creative uses of language, down to their most difficult incarnations. It proposes that at the s...