BACKGROUND There has been little research into poetry-based medical education. Few studies consider learners' perceptions in depth. OBJECTIVE To explore general practice registrars' (GPRs) perceptions of two poetry-based sessions. METHODS GPRs in one general practice vocational training scheme experienced two poetry sessions. In one, the facilitator selected poems; in the other, poems were ...

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...

This paper displays the ideological positioning as found in Rudyard Kipling’s poem If. It is a published 1910. presents embedded ideologies and shows how poet used available linguistic resources to achieve his goal. The models of analysis adopted are Critical Stylistics proposed by Lesley Jeffries (2010) Stylistic Analysis submitted McIntyre (2010). aims at identifying poet’s beliefs show that ...

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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Background: Infertility is global problem that leads to psychological complications. Studies show that the psychological damage caused by infertility is far greater in women that in men. Infertility reduces psychological well-being and causes infertility stress in infertile women. The objective of the present research was to determine the effectiveness of a positive thinking based poetry therap...

attempts to define poetry have occupied the minds of many writers for a long time. although all people believe in the existence of poetry, but there is not a consensus on what it is. the diversity of definitions about poetry has led some writers to know basically poetry undefinable, for a widely accepted definition has not yet provided. there have always been some kinds of poetry which have bro...