In her paper, "Postcolonial African Consciousness and the Poetry of Agostinho Neto," Irene Marques introduces the magic words of a great poet with the question: can poetry carry enough sorrow, enough strength, enough fire, enough love, enough wisdom, enough care, and enough horror to penetrate the hearts and the souls of the oppressed and the oppressors so that both will desperately want to esc...

The subject of our research in this paper are aspects religious spirituality contemporary Serbian poetry. First, we give an overview poetic, ideological and cultural characteristics poetic production the last three decades, with certain value categorizations. We then direct attention to individual poetics poets born seventies eighties, whose poetry has a proven presence Christian inspiration. O...

amongst the poems of the period of jahiliyyah, there may exist some religious terms and concepts that are similar to the quranic terms and concepts. the precedence of these poems over the holy quran, has led some people contemplate that these jahili poetry could be considered as a resource of the quran. this result relies on the comprehensive similarity of the concept of the jahili poetry as we...

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 ...

Abstract This article analyses the romantic-Zionist poetry of Nina Davis Salaman, contextualising it alongside other fin-de-siècle Zionist poets to argue that she too similarly adopted bibliocentric, prophetic, and diasporic perspectives, particularly themes associated with medieval Andalusian Judah Halevi. In doing so, much like Anglo-Jewish women writers, defined her own subjectivity in conte...

Coinciding with the years between 1837 and 1901, The Victorian period witnessed dramatic growth of reading public increasing significance novel genre in accordance circulating libraries weekly magazines through which a great number novels were published. Although these realist novels, characterized by an impetus for social realism order to portray negative impacts industrialism capitalism upon ...

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...