This thesis proposes an account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes in the light of recent developments in pragmatic theory. More specifically it discusses and attempts to develop the relevance theory account of poetic effects. Much recent debate in literary studies has centred on the question as to whether literary communication is best explained in terms...

This paper is a comparative quantitative evaluation of an approach to teaching poetry in the subject domain of English that employs a ‘guided discovery’ pedagogy using computer-based microworlds. It uses a quasi-experimental design in order to measure performance gains in computational thinking and poetic thinking following a microworld-based intervention in English lessons. Preliminary finding...

Poetry-making and Policy-making (*) 12. 1 Prospects for an arranged marriage 12.2 Overtures of the Beast 12.3 Overtures of Beauty 12.4 Voice of the Matchmaker 12.5 Poetic configuration of policy guidelines 12.6 Enhancement of policy through key poetic insights 12.7 Vision of a poetic policy project 12.8' ~;nv,:;ioning the policy-making experience of the future , 12,9 Fdicy disc(;urse through me...

there is no doubt that fantastic whispers and melodies of love terms, which have found its way into sonnet envelope through the body of arabic poetry and literature and drew poets’ attention ever- increasingly and welcomed by them, were followed by a type of verse that was seriously affected by charming and nice odes recited by well-known literary characters at age of jahelid. at the beginning ...

We propose a machine learning method for recognizing modern Arabic poems based on the common poetic features of modern Arabic poetry. The poetic features include: rhyming, repetition, use of diacritics and punctuations, and text alignment. The method can classify text documents as poem or non-poem documents with a very high accuracy of 99.81%.

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

points of similarity as difficulty of the problem, method of investigation and proof, style of organization, and writing techniques are highlighted in each work. Finally, in her conclusion, the author contends that the greatest similarities between the scientific and poetic works of Haller are in their subject matter, but that philosophical and religious themes are common to both as well. This ...

The article presents a monograph by Saadet Shikhiyeva. Her "Nesimi's Lyrics: Wisdoom Content and Poetic Decorations" discusses the themes of Nasimi's creativity that have not been studied so far place poet in history Azerbaijani philosophical poetry. In this work, research on Nesimi was carried out two divans poet, which he wrote Turkish Persian. Keywords: Nesimi, Shikhiyeva, Hurufism.

After a brilliant career at the heart of empire, the ‘Abbam sid court poet alBu D hturi found himself disillusioned with royal patronage. In AD 883 he set out in doleful mood to find solace in the vestiges of another empire which his own people, the Muslim Arabs, had humbled and defeated two centuries earlier: Sasanid Persia and the by now abandoned ruins of its capital, Ctesiphon. The contempl...