We apply topic modeling to classifying the genre of Ghazal, a form common in Persian poetry. We show that a classifier based on automatically-generated topics exposes important information with only a small performance penalty: the top discriminative topics can be manually aligned with themes prevalent in the associated genres, as identified by scholars of literature. We also weigh in on a long...

A Look at Contemporary Persian Poetry, Currents in Persian Poetry in 20th Century This book is a historical survey of literature though the writer has tried to distance himself from ancient approaches and to apply a modern look of analysis, critique and stylistics. In the first chapter the methodology is discussed followed by the second chapter which talks of text and metatext and the relation...

Oriental poetry is often devoted to romantic, mystical, religious, social, political themes, and written in extremely beautiful soul-shaking tones. Persian poet Shamsiddin Muhammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (1325-1390) considered the father of Near Eastern Middle lyrics. He connects mystical ghazals Mawlana Rumi romantic Saadi, gives freedom verses ghazal creates a new twist it. Poetry methods: Iham Ibha...

â â â  the rhythms of the new poetry in arabic and persian literature â  (a comparative study) â  â mohammad khaqhani * â roohollah mottalebi ** â  â abstractâ  in the first half of the last century, the contemporary poetry both in arabic and persian was presented as the traditional and new form. it seems that the focus of the new poetry was on the wisdom and affection and their effects on the ...

adi - ben - zaid al- ebadi is one of the well-known poets in jaheli age who lived in court of sasanied kings and heerem's kings who were appointed and backed up by them. as such his life was away from tribal war and bedouin life. he had a good command of both arabic and persian languages. this poet was court scribe and ambassador of anoshirvan to seizer and his poetry was different from ot...

Poetry like other literary genres exists to be enjoyed and appreciated. The difficult task facing any instructor is to develop this sense of appreciation and enjoyment in students who are not interested in poetry. For a long time, literature in general and poetry in particular, was purged from the teaching programmes on the ground that it made no contribution to learning a foreign language for ...

â â  “macaronic” literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and “macaronic verse”, in arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are composed of words which include dotted letters (mo’jamah) whereas the words in another hemstitch or stitch possess letters with no dots (mohmalah...